Due to heavy snowfall, the schools and colleges in Lahaul Spiti district have been closed till February 3 (Saturday). Himachal Pradesh’s capital Shimla received the season’s first snowfall today (February 1)after a long gap, giving the resort a picturesque look. Towns in upper Shimla district were cut off with heavy snow cover piled on roads.
The season’s first snowfall froze the ‘Queen of Hills’, as Shimla was fondly called by the erstwhile British rulers. As news of the snowfall spread, tourists started arriving in Shimla and its nearby places like Kufri, Mashobra and Narkanda too wrapped in a thick blanket of snow.
Hills overlooking Manali like Gulaba, Solang and Kothi have been experiencing moderate snow since Wednesday (January 31), according to a meteorological official here. Manali town, however, too got snowfall.
Kothi, near Manali, got 50 cm snow, the highest in the state, followed by Koksar in Lahaul-Spiti district and Khadrala in Shimla district.
“The higher reaches of Lahaul-Spiti, Kinnaur, Kullu, Shimla, Sirmaur and Chamba districts have been experiencing snowfall since Wednesday and would continue till Friday,” the official said.
