Shimla, Feb 20 (IANS) The picturesque tourist resorts of Manali and Kufri near Shimla Friday experienced more snow, triggering a rush of tourists.
According to the Met Office here, certain areas of Shimla such as the Ridge, the US Club and Jakhu hills received snowflakes.
Shimla recorded a minimum temperature of 3.2 degrees Celsius.
"We really enjoyed the snowfall," said Delhiite Aadil Sethi, who was in Kufri along with his friends.
"High-altitude areas of Lahaul-Spiti, Chamba, Mandi, Kinnaur, Sirmaur and Shimla districts again experienced moderate to heavy snow," an official of the Met department told IANS.
While, Keylong, the headquarters of Lahaul-Spiti experienced 37 cm inches of snow, it was 36 cm in Kalpa in Kinnaur district. The towns recorded a low of minus 0.6 and minus 5.4 degrees respectively.
Manali registered 19 cm of snowfall and had a minimum temperature of 1.6 degrees.
The entire Kinnaur district and towns in Shimla district such as Narkanda, Jubbal, Kotkhai, Kumarsain, Kharapathar and Chopal experienced snow.
The majestic Dhauladhar ranges of the Himalayas surrounding Dharamsala wore a fresh blanket of snow.
Rain lashed the lower areas of the state such as Dharamsala, Palampur, Solan, Nahan, Bilaspur, Una, Hamirpur and Mandi, lowering temperatures.
Dharamsala recorded 16.6 mm of rain and the night temperature stayed at 6.8 degrees.
Seobagh, near Kullu town, got 77 mm of rain, state's highest.
The Met Office forecast said another western disturbance - storm systems originating in the Caspian Sea and moving across the Afghanistan-Pakistan region - would hit the region Feb 24-25, bringing more rain or snow.
Vivo Y21e Launched in India: Popular phone maker company Vivo has launched its new smartphone Viv
It might be most memorable day for the small shoe shop o
An auto rickshaw and a truck collided head-on in a village in Karnataka's Chittaguppa taluk late
PM meets head of Syrian Orthodox church
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday met the supreme head of the Unive
Famous comedian Samay Raina is now trying to make his life normal again after the controversy ove
CTET Answer Key 2023: CBSE can release the CTET answer key on this day, check the date
CTET 2023 Answer Key: There is a useful update for the candidates who appeared in the recently co
The film 'Laapataa Ladies', directed by Kiran Rao, may not have performed very&nbs
Harshvardhan Kapoor to clash with father Anil Kapoor in Netflix film 'Thar', to be released soon
Famous OTT platform Netflix has announced its revenge-thriller film named 'Thar'. Netflix has sha
The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, who is on a visit to Jammu, said that he is not se
After the Taliban's occupation of Afghanistan, while most countries are busy evacuating their cit
