July 8, 2023 9:05 PM

Extremely heavy rainfall in Himachal, IMD issues red alert

The weather department has raised the ‘orange’ alert to ‘red’ for isolated spells of extremely heavy rainfall in the districts of Chamba, Kangra, Kullu, Mandi, Una, Hamirpur, and Bilaspur for 8th July and 9th July. IMD has also warned of localised flooding and landslides in Himachal Pradesh. It added that isolated spells of very heavy rainfall are likely in districts Shimla, Sirmaur and Solan, while there could be isolated spells of heavy rain in Lahaul and Spiti.   Our correspo...