The State Meteorological Centre has forecast light to moderate rain/snow at many places in Uttarakhand. Snowfall is likely to occur in places at 3,000 metres and above altitude on Saturday.
However dry weather would prevail from Sunday for the next few days, said Met officer. Higher reaches of Uttarakhand received light/snow on Friday. light rainfall has been forecast in Dehradun city, Mussoorie and other places from Fridayevening, said Met officer.
Moreover, the Met office has also issued a warning of hail/squall at isolated places in Dehradun, Haridwar, Pauri and Udham Singh Nagar during the next 24 hours starting from Saturday, February 20 morning.
State meteorological centre director Bikram Singh attributes this to a fresh development of western disturbances that are forming at present. Dehradun residents witnessed cloudy sky throughout the day on Friday. The maximum temperature was recorded around four degree dip than that ofThursday. Following rain/snow in higher reaches, the maximum temperature is expected to dip by few degreeson Saturday.
Singh said that the weather forecast for Dehradun on Saturday is one or two spells of light rain/thunder showers at some places. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 20ºC and 12 ºC, respectively, in Dehradun on Saturday. Singh informed that the maximum and mini-mum temperatures were recorded at 24.9ºC and 15.9ºC in Dehradun while it was 16.4ºC and 11.6ºC in Tehri, 20.6ºC and 10.5ºC in Mukteshwar and 29.1ºC and 17.0ºC in Pantnagar on Friday.