SRINAGAR, Mar 4: The weather improved on Tuesday after parts of Kashmir Valley experienced yet another spell of fresh snowfall and fairly widespread rains during the past 24 hours.
The Meteorological Centre Srinagar said the weather will remain dry till March 9.
There is a possibility of a fresh spell of rain and snow likely from March 10 to 12, it said.
The MeT office provided parameters of precipitation during the past 24 hours in the Kashmir Valley, saying the ski resort of Gulmarg received yet another moderate spell of 30.0cm of snowfall while tourist resorts of Pahalgam, Kokernag and Kupwara received light snowfall during the period.
Srinagar and other plains of Kashmir Valley received intermittent, fairly widespread rainfall during the past 24 hours. The highest precipitation was recorded at Gulmarg (29.4 mm), Pahalgam (22.8 mm), Kupwara (19.9 mm), Kokernag (19.8 mm), and Srinagar (12.9 mm), respectively.
The inclement weather triggered cold conditions across the region, and the maximum temperature dropped by 3 to 9°C in many parts of the Kashmir Valley and 4 to 9°C in the Jammu division on Monday.
The highest day temperature was recorded at the picnic spot of south Kashmir’s Kokernag at 11.2°C, while at Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, it was recorded at 10.2°C on the previous day.
The minimum temperature recorded during the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday remained below 1 to 3°C in Jammu and Kashmir.
The ski resort of Gulmarg remained the coldest place with a low of -5.5°C, and this was 1.1°C below normal, while Srinagar had a low of 2.5°C, and this was normal for the summer capital during this period of the season.
The tourist spots of Pahalgam and Kokernag settled at -0.6°C, Kupwara at -0.4°C, and Qazigund at 0.4°C, while in the Jammu division, Bhaderwah and Banihal recorded a low of 1.6°C, the MeT office said. (Agencies)
