Snowfall in Dhauladhar range's foothills; 1 more dead in Assam

The foothills of the Dhauladhar mountain ranges in Himachal Pradesh received the season's first snowfall, while floods in Assam claimed one more life taking the toll in the latest wave of deluge in the state to 75.
However, the flood situation in Bihar continued to improve with water receding in several places and people returning to their homes.
The Dhauladhar mountain ranges received mild snowfall this afternoon, bringing the day temperature in Dharamsala down to around 2 degrees Celsius.
Experts said that the snowfall in the higher reaches of the foothills of the Himalayas was an indication of the departure of the Northwest Monsoon.

Even as the flood situation in Assam improved marginally and the Brahmaputra is flowing above the red mark at Nimatighat in Jorhat, 56,000 people remained affected across four districts, the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said.
Till yesterday, over 62,000 people were affected in six districts.

At present, 151 villages are under water and over 6,500 hectares of crop areas are inundated, the ASDMA said, adding authorities are running 40 relief camps and distribution centres in five districts.
With today's death, 159 people have lost their lives in this year's floods in Assam.
In flood-hit Bihar, only 2,887 people now remain in eight relief camps in 19 districts and there was no change in the death toll which is 514, the state disaster management department said.

The south west monsoon has weakened further in the state, the MeT department said.
Delhi recorded a maximum temperature of 33.1 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season's average while the minimum was 24.2 degrees Celsius.
The humidity levels oscillated between 96 and 65 per cent.
The foothills of the Dhauladhar mountain ranges in Himachal Pradesh received the season's first snowfall, while rain lashed several other areas of the state, bringing the mercury down.
Thunderstorm and rains lashed parts of Shimla, Solan and Sirmaur districts causing marginal drop in the mercury in Himachal Pradesh.
Shimla received 31 mm rains since yesterday while Jubbarhatti was wettest in the region with 36 mm of rainfall, followed by Sarkaghat 24 mm, Dharamshala 22 mm and Mashobra 20 mm.

Night temperatures dropped marginally and Keylong, Manali, and Kalpa recorded a low of 9.1 degrees Celsius, 9.6 degrees Celsius and 10 degrees Celsius respectively.
Maximum temperatures too showed a downward trend and Una was the hottest in the region with a high of 34.3 degrees Celsius, followed by Sundernagar 31 degrees Celsius and Bhuntar 29 degrees Celsius.