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Now is the time for bonfires in Udhagamandalam
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Sale of candles is brisk since the people normally associate frequent disruption in power supply with the weather.
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WAY TO KEEP WARM: Autorickshaw drivers keeping the monsoon cold at bay with street corner bonfires in Ooty on Saturday.- Photo: D.Radhakrishnan
Udhagamandalam:
Since Friday weather in many parts of the Nilgiris has become nippy on account of the South-West monsoon.
Though barring Avalanchi and Upper Bhavani, which received 20 mm and 15 mm of rain respectively during the last 24 hours, no other area received much rain, winds and bitter cold have affected normal life.
Lighting of bon fires at street corners and auto and taxi stands by drivers to keep the cold at bay has commenced. Since natural calamities and uprooting of trees normally occurred in such conditions the district administration has asked all the officials to be constantly in a state of alert. Sale of candles has become brisk.
With the wet and cold conditions reducing the inflow of tourists to a trickle popular spots like the Government Botanical Garden, the Ooty lake and Dodabetta peak wore a more or less deserted appearance.
0The advent of the South-West monsoon has been greeted with cheer by the farming community here.
The Deputy Director of Horticulture, T.Bellie told The Hindu here today that if the weather pattern continued in the same way tea gardens and standing crops like potato, cabbage, beans and beetroot would benefit considerably.
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