The State Meteorological Centre has forecast dry weather on Sunday. The higher reaches of Uttarakhand like Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri, Yamunotri, Hemkund and other places received light snow over the last 24 hours on Saturday. light rainfall was also reported in Dehradun city, Mussoorie and other places on Saturday. Dehradun residents witnessed light rainfall followed by cloudy sky and then sunshine during the day on Saturday.
State meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said that following rain/snow in higher reaches, the maximum and minimum temperatures are expected to dip by few degrees on Sunday in comparison to that of Saturday. By 8.30 am on Saturday, 5.4 mm rainfall was reported in Uttarkashi, 2 mm in Mussoorie, 0.9 mm in Dehradun, 5.5 mm in Tehri, 4 mm in Ghansali, 3 mm in Ranichauri, 1 mm in Garisain, 24.4 mm in Joshimath, 9 mm in Munsiyari, trace in Nainital and 0.4 mm each in Pithoragarh and Mukteshwar districts. Singh said that the weather forecast for Dehradun on Sunday is mainly clear to partly sky. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 24ºC and 11 ºC, respectively, in Dehradun on Sunday.
The Met office has forecast dry weather in the state till February 24. Singh informed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 28.5ºC and 17.2ºC in Dehradun while it was 14.9ºC and 8.0ºC in Tehri, 15.0ºC and 9.1ºC in Mukteshwar and 24.0ºC and 18.2ºC in Pantnagar on Saturday.