Piercing cold wave conditions continued unabated in Himachal Pradesh as tribal areas and other higher hills had fresh spell of snowfall while the mid and lower hills received moderate rains.

 The sky remained heavily overcast and icy winds swept the region forcing peopleto stay indoors.

The tribal Bharmaur valley witnessed 21 cm of snow while Keylong and Kalpa in Lahauland Spiti and Kinnaur received 11 cm ad five cm of snow and Dhauladhar and Churdharranges experienced moderate snow fall.

Manali and Shimla which had snowflakes recorded 11 mm and 3 mm rains while Dalhousie, Una and Dharamsala had 5 mm, 4 mm 3 mm rains.

The minimum temperatures rose marginally and Keylong, Kalpa and Manali recorded a low of minus 6.8 deg, minus 2.4 deg and minus 0.6 deg while Solan, Shimla, Una, Sundernagar and Bhuntar shivered with minimum temperature at 2.2 deg, 2.7 deg, 3.0 deg, 3.7 deg and 3.9 deg C respectively.

Palampur recorded a low of 6.2 deg while Dharamsala was marginally colder with minimum temperature at 5.4 deg, three degrees below normal.

Unawas hottest with maximum temperature at 21.2 deg, while Sundernagar, Solan and Bhuntar recorded a high of 18.7 deg,17.7 deg and 16.0 deg, followed by Nahan15.6 deg, Dharamshala15.2 deg, Shimla13.1 deg and Kalpa3.0 deg C. The local MeT office has predicted dry weather for next two days and rains, thunderstorm and snowfall from January8 onwards.