Weather News - North India

A night in sub-zero at Rohtang Pass

Todays news report that  “hundreds ” of people  (five HRTC buses , 30 civilian vehicles and an army convoy) were forced to spend the night in subzero temperatures , waiting for the road to be cleared from yesterdays snow fall. Two feet of snow put a stop to the traffic on both sides of the pass.

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Weather updates- North India

Heavy rains are being reported from states of North India and Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

Himalayan states also faces heavy landslides and rockfall resulting in traffic chaos.

Flooding, house collapses and lightning strikes caused by heavy rains killed at least 14 people in northern India, taking the reported death toll in the annual monsoon season to 79, officials said Sunday.

Heavy rains lashed the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh state, flooding all the major rivers in the region, Surendra Srivastava, a police spokesman told The Associated Press in Lucknow, the state capital.

Fourteen people died Saturday in a variety of rain-related incidents.

Army and paramilitary forces were put on high alert and relief camps set up to evacuate people left homeless or trapped by the flood waters, Charanjeet Singh, a state government official said.

Eleven people died in the same region after heavy rains earlier in the week, officials said.

Monsoon rains usually hit India from June to September.

The precipitation is crucial for farmers whose crops feed hundreds of millions of people, but it also brings massive destruction across the country. Every year, thousands of people are killed by flooding, collapsing houses and other rain-related incidents.

Since the start of this monsoon season at least 79 people have been reported killed in eastern and northeastern India.

Weather Update: High passes closed

Weather update:Where plains of North India were dry and weather forecast is also the same- higher reached of Lahaul-Spiti and Ladakh received moderate to heavy snowfall.

Roads near BARALACHA-LA was blocked with 2 feets of snow while at PATSEO it was few inchaes but vehicles were unable to move.
all high passes like Rohtang Pass, Kunzum La, Baralacha La were blocked due to heavy snowfall and weather was bad in UTTARAKHAND also which forced many trekking and climbing teams to come back.