The mountain state grappling with a major rain deficit this winter season, things eased a little on Tuesday as vast swathes of the state received moderate rain/thundershowers/hailstorms over the past 24 hours. However, the climate would remain dry for four/five days starting from Wednesday, said the meteorological centre officials.
The weather forecast for Dehradun for Wednesday is mainly clear to partly cloudy sky. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 25 degree Celsius and 10 degree Celsius respectively on Wednesday, said Meteorological centre director Bikram Singh on Tuesday.
Hailstorm lashed some places in Uttarakhand on Tuesday as per the forecast by the Met department. By 8.30 am, 20 mm rainfall was reported from Dharchula while 10 mm each from Joshimath, Chinyalishour, Mori, Chamoli, Tehri, Ghansali and Haridwar and 4.8 mm from Dehradun and 0.2 mm from Mukteshwar.
Singh said that the minimum temperatures are appreciably above normal to markedly above normal both in the plains and in the hills of the state. lowest minimum temperature 3.8°C was recorded in Munsiyari on Tuesday.
While the maximum settled at 26.0ºC (three degree above the normal) the minimum shot to at 13.6ºC (five degree above the normal) in Dehradun. It was 7.3ºC (seven degree below the normal) and 5.7ºC (five degree above the normal) in Mukteshwar and 29.3ºC (five degree above the normal) and 14.2ºC (four degree above the normal) in Pantnagar on Tuesday. In Tehri district, maximum temperature was reported as 13.5 degree Celsius while the minimum was 9.2 degree Celsius on Tuesday.