The intense cold wave conditions in higher hills and tribal areas of Himachal Pradesh subsided today, even as temperatures rose by a few notches due to mild snowfall in high-altitude tribal areas, MeT officials said.
Keylong experienced 3 cm of snowfall while Udaipur received 7 mm rain, but the weather remained dry in rest of the state, officials said.
The local MeT office has warned of thunder squall with hail at isolated places in the mid and lower hills from tomorrow and dry weather in the region from March 24 onwards.
The day temperature rose to 34 degrees Celsius in Una, five degrees above the normal. Solan and Sundernagar recorded maximum temperatures at 30.4 degrees Celsius and30. 3 degrees Celsius.
Nahan recorded 29.5 degrees Celsius, Bhuntar28.8 degrees Celsius, Shimla 23 degrees Celsius, Dharmshala 21.2 degrees Celsius, Manali 19.6 degrees Celsius and Kalpa 19 degrees Celsius.
The minimum temperatures also rose by two to four degrees and Keylong and Kalpa recorded a low of 0.6 degrees Celsius and 3 degrees Celsius respectively.
Manali recorded 7 degrees Celsius, Solan 10 degrees Celsius, Bhuntar 10.1 degrees Celsius, Dharamshala and Sundernagar 10.6 degrees Celsius each and Shimla 12.7 degrees Celsius.
Farmers are keeping their fingers crossed in view of hailstorm and thunder squall warning tomorrow as it would damage wheat crop.
However, experts in the state agriculture department said that damage to crops during the wet spell and stormy conditionsin March was not much, and dry weather in next few days would be good for crop.
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