Himachal stays in grip of cold
January 17th, 2011 - 6:58 pm ICT by IANS
Shimla, Jan 17 (IANS) The hills of Himachal Pradesh Monday continued to be in the grip of the severe cold with snow-blocked roads affecting traffic.Roads in the upper Shimla areas remained blocked because of the heavy snowfall in the region last week. Traffic was disrupted for the third consecutive day.
A government spokesperson said that no bus of the state-run transport corporation has been plying in upper Shimla since Saturday evening as a large number of vehicles were stuck in snow between Kufri and Narkanda.
Keylong in Lahaul and Spiti district was the coldest place in the state at a minimum temperature of minus 14.9 degrees Celsius, Meteorological office director Manmohan Singh told IANS.
Kalpa in Kinnaur district recorded a low of minus 5.4 degrees.
Shimla’s minimum temperature stood at 2.3 degrees Celsius, a lot warmer than Sunday’s minus 3.3 degrees.
Dharamsala recorded a low of minus 1.8 degrees while the minimum temperature in Bhuntar was 0.3 degree and Solan 0.6 degree and Palampur 1 degree Celsius.
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