The State meteorological centre has issued an alert about the possibility of moderate/dense fog in some parts of the plains in Uttarakhand.
People of Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar districts might wake up to dense fog and cold conditions on December 18 and 19. Cold conditions are also likely to occur in some places. Fog was also witnessed in the state’s provisional capital during the morning and evening on Monday and Tuesday. A substantial difference between maximum and minimum temperature in Dehradun is forecast on Wednesday, the maximum and minimum temperatures forecast being 22 degrees Celsius and seven degrees Celsius respectively. The skies will remain mainly clear to partly cloudy sky.
Dry weather is likely to prevail in rest of the state with skies remaining mainly clear to partly cloudy. Meanwhile, the maximum and minimum temperatures recorded at various places in Uttarakhand on Tuesday were 21.7 degrees Celsius and 8.4 degrees Celsius respectively in Dehradun, 13.3 degrees Celsius and 10.6 degrees Celsius in Pantnagar, 10 degrees Celsius and 0.8 degree Celsius in Mukteshwar and 14.2 degrees Celsius and 2.2 degrees Celsius respectively in New Tehri.