India, Jan. 23 -- Minimum temperatures are likely to fall by 3-5 degrees Celsius across northwest India, including Delhi, over the next 24 hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) warned on Friday after the upper reaches of the country received the season's first heavy snowfall.

Light to moderate rainfall and heavy snowfall were recorded at most places across Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh, and at isolated locations in Uttarakhand, the IMD said.

"There is likely to be a fall in minimum temperatures by 3-5degC over plains of northwest India, including Delhi, during the next 24 hours," the IMD said in its bulletin.

Between Thursday night and Friday morning, snowfall was recorded in Shimla, Manali, Keylong, Kufri, ...