Weather remains dry in HP as monsoon weakens

Weather remained mainly dry with a few places witnessing light rainfall in Himachal Pradesh, MeT department official said today.
Over the next three days conditions will become favourable for further withdrawal of monsoon from some more parts of north-west India, the MeT office said.
Barringrains and thundershowers at a few places in the mid hills tomorrow, the weather would remain dry over the next six days, they added.
Wintry conditions are setting in with mercury plummeting in high altitude tribal areas. Keylong and Kalpa in Lahaul and Spiti and Kinnaur districts recorded minimum temperatures of 6.5 and 8.0 degree Celsius respectively.

Manali recorded 11.6 degree Celsius and Shimla 13.9, Bhuntar and Dharamsala 15.5 each, Palampur 16.0, Solan 16.4 , Sundernagar 17.9, Nahan 19.5 and Una 23.6.
Maximum temperature at Bhuntar was 30.6 degree Celsius, Sundernagar 29.9, Dharamshala 27.4, Shimla 22.4, Solan 26.8, Manali 24, Nahan25.2, Manali 24 and Kalpa 21.8.
Dharamshala was the wettest with 10mm rainfall. Nadaun recieved 6mm, Nurpur 5mm, Nagrota Suriyan 4mm and Hamirpur 3mm.
Monsoon deficit remained at 25 per cent with the region receiving 623 mm rainfall against a normal of 834.8 mm.