Shimla: The southwest monsoon on Wednesday made landfall in Himachal Pradesh on its normal date, Met Department said here.
There has been prediction of heavy to very heavy rains across the state from June 24 to June 26 and extremely heavy rains (more than 245 mm)?at isolated places in Chamba, Kangra, Mandi and Sirmaur districts tomorrow.
Light to moderate rains occurred at many places in the state and Rajgarh was wettest in the region with 20 mm rains, followed by Manali 16 mm, Dharampur 16 mm, Sangrah 13 mm, Kasauli 9 mm, Shimla 8 mm and Nurpur and Una 4 mm each.
The state received 14 per cent deficient rains from June 1 to June 24 and all districts except Una, Mandi and Kullu received deficient rains.
Una and Kangra received 132 and 35 per cent excess rains respectively.
Tribal districts of Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti received 65 and 60 per cent less rains while Sirmaur, Bilaspur, Solan Mani and Shimla received 33, 20, 16, 15 and 14 per cent?less rains.
While Kullu received two per cent excess rains, Chamba and Hamirpur districts?recorded six per cent deficient rains.
Nahan was hottest in the region with maximum temperature at 33 degrees while Sundernagar recorded a high of 32.7 degrees followed by Una and Bhuntar 32?degrees, Solan 29.6 degrees, Dharamshala 28.4 degrees, Shimla 24.4 degrees, Manali 23.8 degrees and Kalpa 23 degrees C.
The minimum temperatures rose marginally and Una recorded a low of 23.6 degrees, followed Sundernagar 20.6 degrees, Palampur 19.4 degrees, Solan and Bhuntar 18.4 degrees, Una 18.5 degrees, Shimla 17.1 degrees, Dharamsala 16.4 degrees, Keylong 12.9 degrees, Kalpa 11.6 degrees and Manali 10.6 degrees C.
