Breaking the 10 week long dry spell, Manali, Kufri draws tourists with snowfall
Breaking the 10 week long dry spell, tribal areas and other higher hills experienced heavy snowfall while other mid and lower hills were lashed by heavy rain.
Kufri on the suburbs of Shimla received a mild snowfall, giving tourists all the more reason to enjoy the hills. The traffic on the Manali-Rohtang road was disrupted due to snow near Nehru Kund, about 5 km from here, this morning.
Hundreds of tourists rushed to Nehru Kund to see the fresh snow. The famous ski slopes of the Solang valley, which are used for skiing courses, also received snow.
Several places in the tribal areas were cut off and 24 roads, including the link roads, were closed in Rohru, Rampur and Kinnaur areas.
Several areas were drenched in rain and Gaggal was the wettest with 114 mm rain while Dalhousie, Dharamsala and Dehra Gopipur received 112 mm,111mm and 96 mm rain.
The maximum temperatures dropped by five to six degrees to stay at 18 degree at 15.2 degree in Una and 13.9 degree in Sundernagar, followed by Dharamsala 12.8 degree, Solan and Bhuntar 12.2 degree, Shimla 8.3 degree, Kalpa 4 degree, Dalhousie 2.1 degree and Keylong 1.5 degree.
At the same time, Keylong, Kalpa and Manali were the coldest with a low of minus 2.4 degree, minus 0.2 degree and 0.6 degree. Shimla recorded the minimum temperature at 4 degree, followed by Una 5.2 degree, Palampur 6.0 degree and Solan and Bhuntar 7.0 degree.
-PTC News
