Cold condition continued on Friday with the State experiencing snow/rain in patches. While the higher reaches had snowfall it rained across the plains. Fog also enveloped vast stretches of the plains. Mercury level dipped again after the cold condition abated a bit before the wet spell started. However, the meteorological centre officials said that things would be dry in the plains of the State while it would continue to snow in the higher reaches of the State on Saturday.
According to Met director, Dehradun, Vikram Singh, light to moderate rain/thunder showers were reported from many places across Uttarakhand over the past 24 hours. lowest minimum temperature -0.7°C was recorded from Mukteshwar in Nainital district. Fog covered many areas in the plains, especially Udham Singh Nagar, Nainital and Haridwar districts. The same would continue for the next three days starting from Saturday.
Singh further said that 40 mm rainfall was reported in Haldwani while it was 30 mm in Pantnagar and 20 mm each in Gairsain and Badkot. 10 mm rainfall was reported each in Ranikhet, Dwarahat, Karnprayag, Chamoli, Champawat, Banbasa, lansdowne, Srinagar, Pauri, Tehri, Devprayag, Mukteshwar, Ramnagar, Munsiyari, Gangolihat, Rudraprayag, Jakholi, Ukhimuth, Bhatwari, Dunda, Uttarkashi, Purola and Garur. light rain/snow has been forecast at isolated places in Uttarkashi, Chamoli and Pithoragarh districts while dry climate would prevail in rest of Uttarakhand till January 30.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Saturday is mainly clear to partly cloudy sky. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 21 ºC and 7ºC respectively in Dehradun on Saturday. The maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 21.1ºC (normal) and 11.5ºC (four degree above the normal) in Dehradun respectively while it was 3.7ºC (nine degree below the normal) and -0.7 (two degree below the normal) in Mukteshwar and 16.4ºC (six degree below the normal) and 12.6ºC (seven degree above the normal) in Pantnagar on Friday. In Tehri district, maximum temperature was reported as 10.8 degree Celsius while minimum was 1.0 degree Celsius on Friday.