Dharamshala, June 20 -- Monsoon is expected to advance over parts of Himachal Pradesh during the next two to three days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday.

A wet spell is also very likely to commence over Himachal from June 20 to 25 and the weather office has issued a heavy rain alert in various districts of the state for the upcoming days. Light to moderate rainfall is likely over many parts of the state with few spells of heavy rainfall over plains and mid hills of the state.

IMD has sounded an orange alert of heavy rainfall at isolated places over Una and Bilaspur during June 21 and 23; over Hamirpur, Shimla and Sirmaur on June 21 and 22; over Kangra on June 22 and 23 and over Mandi and Solan on June 22. Very...