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Heavy snowfall crossed Himachal Pradesh has led to the closure of 565 roads, including 2 nationalist highways, and disrupted astir 4,800 powerfulness organisation transformers, officials said connected Friday (January 23, 2026).
According to the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC), the tribal territory of Lahaul and Spiti is the worst affected, with 292 roads blocked. This includes NH-03 (Leh-Manali) and NH-505 (Kaza-Gramphu).Other large closures see 105 roads successful Chamba, 70 successful Una, 64 successful Mandi, 20 successful Sirmour, 9 successful Kullu, 4 successful Kangra, and 1 successful Solan.
The snowfall has besides crippled powerfulness infrastructure crossed the State. Of the 4,797 affected transformers, 1,856 are successful Solan, 901 successful Mandi, 682 successful Kullu, 659 successful Chamba, 624 successful Sirmour, 53 successful Lahaul and Spiti, 20 successful Kinnaur, and 2 successful Una, leaving respective areas without electricity.
The Meteorological Department has forecast continued dense snowfall successful the State's higher reaches for the adjacent 2 days, January 24 and 25. While upwind conditions successful different areas are expected to stay mostly clear, a yellowish informing for dense fog and acold question has been issued for Kangra, Mandi, Solan, Una, Bilaspur, Hamirpur and Sirmour during the aforesaid period.
Himachal Pradesh connected Friday (January 23, 2026) received its archetypal snowfall of this winter, ending a astir three-month-long adust spell. According to the Shimla Meteorological Centre, Kothi colony adjacent Manali received 15 cm, the highest successful the State.
Gondla, Kukumseri, and Hansa villages successful the Lahaul and Spiti territory received 12 cm, 6.8 cm, and 5 cm of snow, respectively. Jubbal successful Shimla territory recorded 6 cm, Manali 4.8 cm, Keylong and Kufri received 4 cm each.
Shimla recorded 0.6 cm of snowfall. District administrations person begun snow-clearing operations, and radical person besides been advised to debar unnecessary travel, particularly successful areas that person received caller snowfall.
