The mercury keeps dipping in Dehradun along with the rest of the State as strong, north-westerly winds have started blowing. No rain has been forecast till December 20, however. The Met office has forecast fog/shallow fog during morning/night hours in some parts of the plains, especially Haridwar, Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar districts, during the next two days.
Dehradun residents started having a feel of the real cold with the mercury dipping to 7 degree Celsius during the night hours on Wednesday.
The maximum also dipped to 24 degree Celsius. The elderly people are skipping the morning walks while the children are finding it tough to get up early to ready for the school.
According to Met director Bikram Singh, temperature in Dehradun might dip further on Thursday, taking the minimum to the neighbourhood of 6 degree Celsius. The maximum temperature was 13.5ºC (one degree below the normal) and the minimum 1.7ºC (two degree below the normal) in Mukteshwar, 15.6ºC and 3.6ºC in Tehri and 20.6ºC (two degree below the normal) and 5.5ºC (one degree below the normal) in Pantnagar on Wednesday.
The weather forecast for Uttarakhand is clear sky. Ground frost is likely to occur at a few places in the hills during the next 48 hours. Fog/shallow fog is likely to occur during morning/night hours in some parts of the plains, especially in Haridwar, Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar districts, during next 24 hours. Mainly clear to partly cloudy sky and dry weather would prevail in the State till December 18, Singh added.