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Sister's Bazar, Landour, in deep snow! Oaks trees covered in powder. Deodars laden heavy with whiteness. Icycles melting off roof-tops. Cars completely obliterated with snow-cover. Trees hidden from view. Jaonli melting into the evening sunset and the winterline overlining the plains below... Landour and Mussoorie - a different world from the rest of India way below in the plains! Landour in the snow and cold. Freezing weather in Landour brings the temperature down to about -2 degrees Celcius. On the 6th of January 2012, the maximum temperature for the day was 2 degrees Celcius! The maximum standing snow was around 1 foot. It has not snowed like this in Landour for about 8 or 9 years and because of so much snow there were no cars going up to Landour and cars were skidding, everything was w
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