The tribal areas and other higherhills of Himachal reeled under bone chilling cold conditionsas mercury stayed several notches below the freezing pointwhile day temperatures rose by few degrees across the state.
Keylong and Kalpa in tribal districts of Lahaul and Spitiand Kinnaur shivered at minimum temperatures dipping to minus14.5 degrees Celsius and minus 7.0 degrees C while maximumtemperatures also remained below freezing point at minus 0.6degrees and zero degrees, six degrees below normal.
Key tourist resort of Manali recorded a low of minus 4.0degrees C, three degrees below normal.
The high altitude areas groaned under biting cold waveconditions with minimum temperatures ranging between minus 16and minus 28 degrees C and Kaza recorded a low of minus 21degrees C.
Bhuntar recorded minimum temperature at minus 0.2 degreesC while Sundernagar shivered at 2.0 degrees, followed by Solan3.0 degrees, Shimla 4.3 degrees, two to three degrees belownormal.
However, maximum day temperatures rose in lower hillswith Una and Sundernagar recording a high of 24.8 degrees Cand 23.3 degrees C, followed by Solan 21.0 degrees, Nahan 19.8degree, Dharamsala 19.4 degree, Shimla 16.5 degree and Kalpa-1.8 degree, two to six degree above normal.
The local MeT office has predicted dry weather for nextfew days with clear sky and marginal improvement in minimumtemperatures.