After days of rains and snow, weather improves in Kashmir
Hindustan TimesThe weather improved across Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday after three days of incessant rains and snowfall. “The weather improved at many places with intermittent light rain/snow at isolated places,” said Mukhtar Ahmad, director of J&K meteorological centre in Srinagar. The MeT informed that among the weather monitoring stations of J&K, a cumulative snowfall of 130 cm or 50 inches was recorded in the ski resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir between February 18 and 21 followed by 50 cm or 20 inches in the southern tourist resort of Pahalgam. “Further, avalanches with high danger level are likely to occur above 2,200 metres over Doda, Kishtwar, Poonch, Ramban, Kupwara and Ganderbal districts in the next 24 hours,” it said in an advisory and urged people living in these areas to take precautions and avoid venturing in the avalanche prone areas The MeT predicted no major wet spell till February 26. The minimum temperature during the night was recorded at zero degree Celsius in summer capital Srinagar and gateway to Kashmir, Qazigund on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday.