Several parts of Himachal Pradesh, including Mandi district where a massive landslide claimed 46 lives, may experience heavy rainfall in next 24 hours.
The rainfall may hamper the rescue operation that continued on the second day in Mandi on Monday. Rescuers on Monday resumed their massive search operation on the Mandi-Pathankot highway near Kotropi village where two Himachal Road Transport Corporation buses, vehicles and several homes were washed away on Saturday night.
The authorities are suspecting one person might be trapped in the mud pile that spread over 300 m area.
A total of 46 bodies were recovered so far, all of them on Sunday. Thirty-three of them were identified and the bodies handed over to their family members on Monday, said a government official.
According to the Met Department, heavy rainfall is expected in Mandi and Kangra districts.
There are chances of heavy rainfall in Solan, Shimla, Sirmaur and Bilaspur districts, said a Met official.
Meanwhile, most of the prominent tourist towns like Shimla, Narkanda, Kufri, Chail, Kasauli, Chamba, Dharamsala, Palampur and Manali have been witnessing good spells of rain for the past one week.
The water level in major rivers of the state - the Satluj, Beas and Yamuna - which enter the neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana has been abnormally high, the government official said.
Shimla, which saw an overnight rain, recorded a low of 15.6 degrees Celsius on Monday. Dharamsala - the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile - saw a minimum of 17.6 degrees Celsius, while it was 13.6 degrees Celsius in Manali.
local authorities have issued a word of caution for the holidaymakers. The tourists are advised to carry light woollens as the temperatures in the hills have fallen sharply due to continuous rainfall.
Fearing landslide threat, the government has closed the road stretch between Mandi and Aut in Mandi district, located on the Chandigarh-Manali national highway.
The Jogindernagar-Mandi section of the Pathankot-Mandi national highway has also been temporarily shut.