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After back to back long periods of moderate to weighty snow in a few pieces of the Himachal Pradesh, 504 streets, including four public expressways, in the state were shut for vehicular traffic, authorities said.

Shimla, the state's capital, saw a concise spell of snowfall on Saturday carrying cheer to inhabitants and vacationers. The city and its abutting regions saw irregular snowfall with cloudy skies.

The climate office anticipated weighty snow in disconnected puts of the state on Sunday.

The neighborhood MeT station has given a 'yellow' alert for tempest and lightning in segregated puts on Saturday and for rainstorm, lightning and hail storm with weighty snow at separated puts on Sunday.

The state saw moderate to weighty snow in a few sections on January 31 and February 1.

As per the state crisis activity focus, a limit of 161 streets are impeded in Shimla, 153 in Lahaul and Spiti, 76 in Kullu and 62 in Chamba locale and 674 transformers and 44 water supply plans have been upset.

Street clearing tasks are happening going full speed ahead to clean snow off of the streets at the earliest, PWD authorities said.

Serious virus wave conditions persevered in many parts even as least temperatures climbed by a couple of scores yet remained underneath typical. The weather conditions stayed dry and no snow or downpour was accounted for from any piece of the state in the beyond 24 hours.

Kukumseri with less 8.1 degree Celsius was coldest around evening time while Narkanda, Kalpa, Dalhousie and Manali shuddered at less 5.6 degrees Celsius, short 3.7 degrees Celsius, less 3.1 degrees Celsius and less 1.8 degrees Celsius separately. Shimla recorded a base night temperature of 1.8 degrees Celsius.