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Snow in Himachal

The higher reaches in Himachal Pradesh had snowfall while its mid and lower hills, and parts of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh, were lashed by moderate to heavy rain during the last 24 hours.

The rains, accompanied by hailstorms at some places, caused extensive damage to rabi and fruit crops.

The rains were triggered by westerly distrubances over Jammu and Kashmir and upper air cyclonic circulation over northeast Rajasthan.

High altitude areas of Lahaul Spiti and Kinnaur, and Pangi valley of Chamsa district in Himachal Pradesh had fresh snowfall.

Day temperatures were appreciably above normal in parts of Haryana, Northeast Rajasthan, Saurashtra, Telangana, Rayalaseema and Tamil Nadu, and above normal in southern coastal Orissa, Kerala southern coastal Andhra Pradesh, the remaining parts of Tamil Nadu, parts of north central Maharashtra and coastal and south interior Karnataka.

They were appreciably to markedly below normal in East Uttar Pradesh, Kashmir, Southwest Rajasthan and parts of interior Orissa and Punjab, and below normal in West Bengal, Sikkim, Bihar and the remaining parts of Telangana.

They were normal over the rest of the country outside Arunachal Pradesh, the plains of West Uttar Pradesh, East Rajasthan and North Madhya Pradesh, from where data was sparse.

UNI

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