lght to moderate snowfall was witnessed in higher reaches of Kullu, Chamba, Keylong, Chamba and Kinnuar on Tuesday even as the Met department expects medium to heavy snowall in several other areas on Wednesday.
The chill of winters is likely to increase in the next 48 hours as the Meteorology department has issued warnings of heavy rain or snowfall in most of Himachal Pradesh on January 25 and 26. As Shimla remained overcast, there was light drizzling in the city along with Kufri and Narkanda.
Meanwhile, due to inclement weather on Tuesday, Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh had to take the road to Kullu, where he is to attend the 47th Statehood Day celebrations on Wednesday. Cloudy sky in Shimla and rains in Kullu, did not allow helicopter sorties to take place.
The CM was scheduled to take his helicopter flight from Annadale ground int he afternoon, but due to overcast conditions in Shimla, he left for Kullu by road. later, he took helicopter from luhnu ground in Bilaspur and reached Kullu. Chief Secretary VC Pharka and Director General of Police Sanjay Kumar are also accompanying CM to Kullu.