Shimla : Intermittent rain continued across Himachal Pradesh Sunday affecting normal life, even as the weather man has offered no respite from the wet weather for the next 48 hours.
The metrological department has warned heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places during the next 48 hours.
The mercury has dropped below normal at all place.With Shimla recording a maximum of 19.9 C in Shimla while it was 18.1C in Manali.Una recorded the highest temperature at 30 C which is several notches below normal.
Thick fog enveloped the mid and higher hills forcing traffic to move at a snails pace.
Most of the rivers in the lower hills are swollen.
A cold wave is sweeping the tribal Lahaul & Spiti district after unseasonal early snowfall in the region.
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