The Uttarakhand meteorological centre has forecast possibility of light to moderate rainfall/snowfall at isolated places especially in higher altitude areas of districts like Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag and Pithoragarh on Friday. Very light to light rainfall/snow is expected at many places in the rest of Uttarakhand. Snowfall is likely to occur at places with height 3000 metres and above, said Met officer.
Moreover, the Met office has released warning of hail/squall at isolated places in Dehradun, Haridwar, Pauri and Udham Singh Nagar during next 24 hours starting from February 20 morning.
State meteorological centre director Bikram Singh attributes this to a fresh development of western disturbances that are forming at present and said that the maximum temperatures are expected to dip by more than five degree Celsius across the state. The minimum temperate are expected to gain by few degrees in compassion to normal.
Singh said that the weather forecast for Dehradun on Friday is very light to light rainfall at some places. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 23ºC and 13 ºC, respectively, in Dehradun on Friday. Singh further informed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 28.4ºC and 12.9ºC in Dehradun while it was 20.5ºC and 8.6ºC in Tehri, 21.4ºC and 8.7ºC in Mukteshwar and 29.0ºC and 10.5ºC in Pantnagar on Thursday.