Heavy snowfall in higher reaches of Uttarakhand

Incessant rains made way for heavy snowfall in Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri, Yamnotri, Auli and Harsil in Garhwal and Dharchula and Munsyari in Kumaon.

Rains lashed Dehradun in the afternoon making the day temperature drop sharply from yesterday's 24 degrees Celsius to 20 degrees Celsius, the MeT department said.

The minimum temperature recorded in the capital today was 7.6 degrees Celsius, a notch below yesterday's 8.6, it said.