Following western disturbances, very light to light rain/snow has been forecast at isolated places in Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag and Pithoragarh districts, especially in the higher reaches on Monday. The weather forecast for Dehradun is clear sky on Monday. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 28ºC and 10ºC respectively.
Met director Bikram Singh said that moderate fog had occurred in plains of Nainital, Udham Singh Nagar and Haridwar districts. Minimum temperatures remained normal to above normal in the plains and appreciably above normal in the hills of Uttarakhand. lowest minimum temperature 1.2°C was recorded in Matela in Almora district.
Western disturbance as an upper air cyclonic circulation over northeast Afghanistan and neighbourhood now lies over north Pakistan and neighbourhood at 3.1 km above mean sea level. The induced upper air cyclonic circulation over northwest Rajasthan and adjoining areas of Punjab and Haryana now lies over Punjab and adjoining Haryana and extends upto 1.5 km above the sea level.
The Met office has forecast warning as fog/dense fog is likely to occur during morning/night hours at many places in the plains of Uttarakhand, especially Haridwar, Nainital and US Nagar districts, during next 24 hours.
Singh said that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 29.2ºC (seven degree above the normal) and 10.7ºC (three degree above the normal) in Dehradun respectively while it was 19.0ºC (four degree above the normal) and 6.5ºC (three degree above the normal) in Mukteshwar, 20.2ºC and 8.1ºC in Tehri and 23.0ºC (one degree below the normal) and 12.5ºC (five degree above the normal) in Pantnagar on Sunday.