The people across Uttarakhand are now reeling under the cold turning more biting each passing day. While Kedarnath, the revered shrine in Rudraprayag district, is getting under a two- feet sheet of snow with the mercury hovering in -12 degree Celsius, bringing the construction works to a halt, the scene in the other three fabled shrines is nearly the same. Dehradun is also under the grip of the chilling winter nowadays, as the minimum temperature plummeted to five degree Celsius on Saturday. The weathermen say that it would further dip in the coming days, sending the people to shiver. Though the Met officials are yet to confirm the possibility of Mussoorie/ landour/ Dhanaulty enjoying a white Christmas is brightening up with the progressive dip in the mercury.
Meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said that the maximum temperature and minimum temperatures were recorded 21.3 degree Celsius (normal), and 5.8 degree Celsius, one notch below the normal, respectively in Dehradun on Saturday. In Pantnagar, the minimum temperatures hovered 6.4 degree Celsius, while it was 4.7 in Mukteshwar and 5.2 in New Tehri.
The Met official further said that while fog is likely to engulf some parts of plains of Uttarakhand, especially in Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar district.