Jammu & Kashmir

Gulmarg, Pahalgam receive fresh snowfall, light rains in other parts

An wide view of snow covered area in Gulmarg, Kashmir. [FPK Photo/ Qayoom Khan]

Srinagar: Famous resorts of Gulmarg and Pahalgam received fresh snowfall while rains lashed plains in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.

A meteorological department official said that Srinagar, the summer capital of the JK, had 0.8mm of rainfall during the last 24 hours till 0830 hours today and recorded a low of 2.2°C against last night’s 2.8°C, he said.

Qazigund, the gateway town of Kashmir, had no rain or snowfall and recorded a low of 0.6°C against 1.2°C on the previous night, he said.

Kokernag, also in south Kashmir, had a low of minus 1.3°C against 0.1°C on the previous night, the official said.

Pahalgam, the famous resort in south Kashmir, received 11.3 cms (around 4.5 inches) of fresh snowfall and recorded a low of minus 0.5°C against minus 3.7°C last night, he said.

Gulmarg received 14 cms (5.5 inches) of snow and recorded a low of minus 5.0°C against minus 7.5°C on the previous night, he said.

The temperature was 0.7°C below normal for this time of the year in the famous resort in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, he said.

Kupwara town in north Kashmir, which received 6.9mm of rain, recorded a low of 0.7°C against 1.1°C on the previous night, the official said.

Jammu received traces of rain and recorded a low of 10.5°C against the previous night’s 6.6°C, the official said.

The temperature was 1.0°C above normal for the JK’s winter capital during this time of the year, he said.

Banihal recorded a low of 3.0°C, Batote had a minimum of 2.2°C while Bhaderwah recorded a low of 2.2°C, the official said.

Ladakh’s Leh recorded a low of minus 11.0°C against last night’s minus 11.4°C while the mercury in Kargil settled at minus 12.5°C. Drass, the second coldest place in the world after Siberia, recorded a low of minus 10.9°C against last night’s minus 17.9°C, the official said.

The weatherman has forecast “erratic weather” with occasional snowfall at scattered places till February 8.

 

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