<div>Popular hill station Manali in Himachal Pradesh Saturday got a fresh blanket of snow, giving the resort and its neighbouring areas a more picturesque look.<br /><br />Manali residents shivered as icy winds brought down the minimum temperature to minus 1 degree Celsius.<br /><br />However, state capital Shimla, which saw just snowflakes, received 10.3 mm of rain overnight.<br /><br />The city saw a low of 3.2 degrees Celsius, whereas the maximum settled at eight degrees Celsius, an official at the local Met office told IANS.<br /><br />Resorts near Shimla like Kufri and Narkanda have been receiving intermittent snowfall.<br /><br />"Heavy rainfall and snowfall may occur in the next 24 hours at isolated places in Shimla, Lahaul-Spiti, Kinnaur districts and parts of Kullu and Chamba districts," a meteorological office statement said.<br /><br />It said the maximum temperature across the state declined by three to four degrees, while the minimum rose by two to three degrees.<br /><br />Rain lashed the lower areas of the state such as Dharamsala, Palampur, Solan, Nahan, Bilaspur, Una, Hamirpur and Mandi, bringing down the temperature.<br /><br />Kalpa in Kinnaur district, which saw 9.2 cm snow, recorded a low of minus 1.2 degrees Celsius while the temperature was minus 7.6 degrees Celsius in Keylong with 6 cm of snow.<br /><br />Dhundi, some 20 km from Manali, received 50 cm of snow.<br />Dharamsala, which recorded 4.2 mm rain, registered a low of 4.4 degrees Celsius and a high of 13.2 degrees. <br /></div>
<div>Popular hill station Manali in Himachal Pradesh Saturday got a fresh blanket of snow, giving the resort and its neighbouring areas a more picturesque look.<br /><br />Manali residents shivered as icy winds brought down the minimum temperature to minus 1 degree Celsius.<br /><br />However, state capital Shimla, which saw just snowflakes, received 10.3 mm of rain overnight.<br /><br />The city saw a low of 3.2 degrees Celsius, whereas the maximum settled at eight degrees Celsius, an official at the local Met office told IANS.<br /><br />Resorts near Shimla like Kufri and Narkanda have been receiving intermittent snowfall.<br /><br />"Heavy rainfall and snowfall may occur in the next 24 hours at isolated places in Shimla, Lahaul-Spiti, Kinnaur districts and parts of Kullu and Chamba districts," a meteorological office statement said.<br /><br />It said the maximum temperature across the state declined by three to four degrees, while the minimum rose by two to three degrees.<br /><br />Rain lashed the lower areas of the state such as Dharamsala, Palampur, Solan, Nahan, Bilaspur, Una, Hamirpur and Mandi, bringing down the temperature.<br /><br />Kalpa in Kinnaur district, which saw 9.2 cm snow, recorded a low of minus 1.2 degrees Celsius while the temperature was minus 7.6 degrees Celsius in Keylong with 6 cm of snow.<br /><br />Dhundi, some 20 km from Manali, received 50 cm of snow.<br />Dharamsala, which recorded 4.2 mm rain, registered a low of 4.4 degrees Celsius and a high of 13.2 degrees. <br /></div>