Minimum temperature in Dehradun district has dipped by two notches as compared to the normal, on Wednesday. Minimum temperatures remained below normal in the plains and still above normal in the hills of Uttarakhand. lowest minimum temperature 2.5°C was recorded in Ghansali in Tehri district.
However, the Meteorological centre has forecast no rainfall in the plain districts till December 31. However, dense fog is likely to occur in some parts of the plains, especially in Nainital, Udham Singh Nagar and Haridwar districts during morning/night of the next two days. Dehradun residents, though having started feeling the real cold in the nights and mornings, are, however, relishing the relative warmth of the day hours. However agriculture and horticulture farmers are disappointed following shortage of rainfall this month.
Met director Bikram Singh said that the weather forecast for Uttarakhand on Thursday is partly cloudy sky, though it would be mainly dry across the state. The weather forecast for Dehradun on Thursday is mainly clear to partly cloudy sky. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 24 ºC and 05 ºC respectively on Thursday.
Singh said that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 23.8ºC (two degree above the normal) and 5.0ºC (two degree below the normal) in Dehradun respectively while it was 22.2ºC (eight degree above the normal) and 8ºC (five degree above the normal) in Mukteshwar, 24.5ºC and 8.0ºC in Tehri and 23.4ºC (one degree above the normal) and 3.8ºC (two degree below the normal) in Pantnagar on Wednesday.