Light to moderate rainfall across Himachal; orange alert issued for today, tomorrow

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Shimla, July 21

Himachal Pradesh is likely to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall on July 22 and 23 as State’s Meteorological Department has issued orange weather warning for Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Una, Solan and Sirmour districts for July 22 and for Mandi, Solan, Shimla and Sirmaur districts for July 23.

The department has also issued yellow weather warning for Chamba, Kangra, Kullu, Mandi, Shimla and Kinnaur for July 22 and for Una, Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Chamba, Kangra, Kullu and Kinnaur for July 23.

This spell of rain could also bring joy to apple growers as they are looking for rainfall for quite some time. Due to low rainfall has triggered several diseases in apple crop and further dry spell is likely to delay apple harvesting season by 10 to 15 days.

The heavy rainfall could lead to localised flooding of roads, waterlogging in low lying areas and closure of underpasses mainly in urban areas of the above region, occasional reduction in visibility due to heavy rainfall, disruption of traffic in major cities due to water logging in roads leading to increased travel time, minor damage to kuchcha roads, possibilities of damage to vulnerable structure and localised landslides/mudslides/landslips/mud slips/land sinks/mud sinks.

The rain could also do damage to horticulture and standing crops in some areas due to inundation.

People have been advised to follow any traffic advisories that are issued in this regard and to avoid going to areas that face the water logging problems often and to avoid staying in vulnerable structure.

Light to moderate rain occurred at few places and heavy rain was observed in Mandi over the state during last 24 hours. Mandi received 67.2mm rain, Dharamsala 36.8mm, Palampur 32mm, Manali 20mm, Sundernagar 11.5mm, Jogindarnagar 11 mm and Nahan 10.6mm.

Maximum temperature in Shimla was 25.5 °C while in Dharamsala it was 29°C. Similarly, Manali recorded 27.3°C, Solan 31°C, Mandi 32.6°C, Bilaspur 36.5°C, Hamirpur 34.6°C, Chamba 35°C, Kudri 21.5°C, Reckongpeo 32.4°C, Kasauli 22.8°C, Sundernagar 34.1°C, Una 33.6°C, Dalhousie 29.7°C and Narkanda recorded 22.5°C maximum temperature.

Bhuntar in Kullu district was the hottest place in the state as it recorded 37.5°C maximum temperature while Kukumseri in Lahaul and Spiti was the coldest place in the state as it recorded 11.6 °C minimum temperature.