Cloud cover brings some respite from cold in Kashmir
Srinagar: Cold conditions eased a bit in Kashmir Valley due to cloud cover on Thursday as most places recorded minimum temperature above normal for this time of the year.
Quoting a Meteorological department official, news agency GNS reported that Srinagar recorded the minimum of 2.1°C, a day after recording minus 1.5°C which was the coldest night so far this season.
At 2.1°C, the minimum temperature in Srinagar was 1.5°C more than the normal for this time of the year in the city, the official said.
Qazigund, the gateway town of Kashmir, recorded a minimum temperature of 0.4°C against minus 2.2°C on the previous night, he said. It was minus 0.4°C below normal for the place.
Pahalgam resort in south Kashmir recorded a low of minus 2.0°C against minus 4.7°C on previous night and it remained the coldest place across J&K.
Kokernag, also in south Kashmir, recorded a low of 0.7°C against minus 1.0°C on the previous night and normal of 1.6°C, the official said.
Kupwara town in north Kashmir recorded a low of 2.0°C against minus 2.0°C on the previous night, the official said.
Gulmarg skiing resort in north Kashmir recorded a minimum of minus 1.0°C against minus 2.0°C on the previous night, the official said.
Leh recorded a low of minus 4.0°C against last night’s minus 8.1°C while mercury settled at minus 0.5°C against minus 4.0°C last night in Kargil, the official said. However, Drass in Kargil, the second coldest place in the world after Siberia, recorded a low of minus 5.0°C.
Regarding next week, the official said that weather shall remain “mainly dry”.
For subsequent one week, he said: “The weather will remain cloudy with possibility of light rain/snow during 24th and 25th November.” He however said that there was no forecast of any major snowfall till November end.
Kashmir Images is an English language daily newspaper published from Srinagar (J&K), India. The newspaper is one of the largest circulated English dailies of Kashmir and its hard copies reach every nook and corner of Kashmir Valley besides Jammu and Ladakh region.
