The Regional Meteorological Centre has forecast dry weather in Uttarakhand while, according to its report, it might rain or snow in the higher reaches in some districts like Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, Chamoli and Pithoragarh on Saturday. As per the weather forecast, the climate would be ,generally, dry in the rest of the State on the day, though the sky would remain generally to partly cloudy.

In Dehradun, the sky would remain generally clear to partly cloudy on the day. The maximum temperature on Friday in the city settled at 32.3 degree Celsius-four notches above the normal-,while the minimum hovered at 14. 2 degree Celsius which was normal. On Saturday too, the same temperature would continue with slight variations.

The Met department officers said that though it is snowing now sporadically in the higher reaches of the State it would take some more time for the mercury in the plains to dip sufficiently to usher in the winter.

They said that the people must wait till the first or the second week of November to get the feel of winter in Dehradun and other places in the plains. However, they say that it might rain in the interim under the influence of the western disturbance which might make the mercury to plunge down.

At Mukteshwar, the minimum temperature settled at 9.3 degree Celsius-two notches above the normal, and the maximum at 21.9 degree which was normal while the minimum was 10.2 at New Tehri-normal and the maximum was 21.2 degree Celsius-normal.  In Pantnagar, the maximum temperature was 32 degree Celsius, two notches above the normal, and the minimum settled at 14.5 degree Celsius-one notch below the normal.