Rain/snow may prove the spoilsport for the Republic Day celebration slated for Thursday in large part of Uttarakhand as the Meteorological centre has issued warning of heavy rain/snowfall at isolated places in all the districts of Garhwal region and Pithoragarh district of Kumaun region on that day. Heavy snowfall is likely to occur at places with height 3000 m and above on Thursday.
Meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said that the minimum temperatures remained normal to appreciably above normal in the plains and markedly above normal in the hills of Uttarakhand. lowest minimum temperature 1.0°C was recorded in Matela on Tuesday.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Wednesday is light rain/thunder showers in some areas. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 21 ºC and 10 ºC respectively in Dehradun on Wednesday.
The weather forecast for Uttarakhand on Wednesday is light to moderate rain/snow at a few places in Garhwal and at isolated places in Kumaun region.
Maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 23.6ºC (three degree above the normal) and 9.4ºC (three degree above the normal) in Dehradun respectively while it was 19.8ºC (seven degree above the normal) and 6.9ºC (five degree above the normal) in Mukteshwar and 24.6ºC (four degree above the normal) and 5.0ºC (normal) in Pantnagar on Tuesday. In Tehri district, maximum temperature was reported as 16.1 degree Celsius while minimum was 7.4 degree Celsius on Tuesday. The dry weather has been forecast from January 28.