The mercury surged up to over 35 degree Celsius, about three degree above the normal, in Dehradun on Wednesday with the weather officials predicting a further rise in the maximum temperature in the city on Thursday.
However, there is a possibility of light rain lashing some parts of the State, particularly the higher reaches in districts like Uttarkashi, Chamoli and Pithoragarh on April 14. The Met officials say that in case it rains it would at least arrest the rise in the mercury for the following few days. However, there is no possibility of rain occurring in the plains for the coming few days. Meanwhile, the highest maximum temperature 35.4 °C was recorded at Roorkee while the lowest minimum temperature 6.6 °C was recorded at Matela.
Bikram Singh, director of Meteorological centre, said that theweather forecast for Uttarakhand on Thursday is mainly clear to partly cloudy sky.
The climate would remain dry though, he added. The weather forecast for Dehradun on Thursday is mainly clear sky.
The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 36 ºC and 16 ºC respectively in Dehradun on Thursday.
While the maximum settled at 35.0ºC (three degree above the normal) and the minimum at 15.9C (one degree above the normal) in Dehradun it was 25.5ºC (three degree above the normal) and 12.5ºC (three degree above the normal) in Mukteshwar and 35.2ºC (normal) and 11.7ºC (three degree below the normal) in Pantnagar on Wednesday. In Tehri district, maximum temperature was reported as 25.0 degree Celsius while the minimum was 12.6 degree Celsius on Wednesday, he added.