Temperature drop across Kashmir, snowfall likely financialexpress.com

Srinagar city recorded the low of minus 4.4 degrees Celsius on Tuesday night – down from minus 3.2 degrees Celsius the previous night, the official said.
A day after some respite, the minimum temperature across the valley dropped again with the MeT department predicting a spell of moderate to heavy snowfall in Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh from Wednesday onwards. However, there was improvement in the night temperature in Ladakh Union territory, an official of the Meteorological department here said. “A spell of moderate snowfall in plains of Kashmir and moderate to heavy snowfall in the hilly areas of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh is likely during January 1 (afternoon) to January 4,” the official said. He said another spell of higher intensity and spatial distribution is most likely during January 6 to 8.

Srinagar city recorded the low of minus 4.4 degrees Celsius on Tuesday night – down from minus 3.2 degrees Celsius the previous night, the official said. The official said the ski-resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir was the coldest place in the valley with a low of minus 11.0 degrees Celsius last night – nearly four degrees down from the previous night’s minus 7.2 degrees Celsius. The night temperature at Pahalgam resort, which also serves as one of the base camps for the annual Amarnath yatra in south Kashmir, settled at a low of minus 6.9 degrees Celsius – down from minus 5.3 degrees Celsius yesterday, he said.