Keylong in HP freezes at minus ten degrees

The district headquarters of Lahaul Spiti, Keylong froze at minus ten degrees, the coldest of this winter season.

Himachal is state facing dry and extreme cold wave conditions with the mercury reeling in sub zero or in minus in most part of town. Kaza and higher reaches of Lahaul Spiti recorded minus 18 to 20 degrees, the Met office said.

Minimum temperature during the last 24 hours was three to four degrees below normal while maximum temperature was two to three degrees below normal.

Minimum temperature of Keylong was lowest of this winter season as the mercury dipped by three degrees below normal and two degrees down recording minus 10 degrees. Kaza another town of Lahaul Spiti was as low as minus 15 degree Celsius.

The Mercury continued to reel under subzero or in minus in many places during the night as Kalpa in Kinnuar was minus 4.4 degrees and three degrees below normal, Sundernagar in Mandi was minus 2.2 degrees, Bhuntar minus 1.4 degrees, Solan minus 1.2 degrees, tourist resort Manali minus one degrees and Kangra minus 0.1 degrees, Chamba 0.4 degrees and Mandi one degree.

Palampur was minus 0.1 degrees in Kangra and six degree below normal. This capital town as 4.6 degrees and one degree below normal. Una was at zero degrees, Dharmshala 2.4 degrees, Hamirpur 2.2 degrees, Bilaspur 2.5 degrees, Dalhousie 3.4 degrees, Kufri 4.4 degrees, Shimla 4.6 degrees and Nahan 6.7 degrees.

People had to face the hardship this morning as they found their water supply blocked after freezing of water pipe lines in many places of Shimla and high land area of the district.

Met Office has warned of dense fog and cold wave conditions in food hills in the next 24 hrs in as the weather would be mainly dry.

The Met office said that a western disturbances as a cyclonic circulation lies over North Pakistan and neighbourhood between 3.6 to 4.5 km above mean sea level.