The Meteorological centre has forecast very light to light rain/snow at isolated places, especially in higher reaches of Uttarakhand on Thursday. After a brief spell of dry weather for two days from March 17 the rain/snow spell would return on March 19. The climate remained mainly dry in Dehradun and other parts of the state on Wednesday.
Meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said that the maximum temperatures were below normal to normal in the plains and appreciably below normal in the hills of Uttarakhand. The highest maximum temperature 28.5 °C was recorded at Pantnagar while the lowest minimum temperature 2.4 °C was recorded at Munsiyari.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Thursday is mainly clear to partly cloudy sky. Thunder cloud development is likely to occur in some areas on the day. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 27°C and 10°C respectively in Dehradun on Thursday.
In Dehradun, while the maximum settled at 26.8ºC (normal) the minimum was 9.1ºC (three degree below the normal). It was 17.8ºC (one degree above the normal) and 3.0ºC (two degree below the normal) in Mukteshwar and 28.5ºC (normal) and 6.4ºC (five degree below the normal) in Pantnagar on Wednesday. In Tehri district, maximum temperature was reported as 17.6 degree Celsius while the minimum was 3.7 degree Celsius on Wednesday.