BE PART OF QUALITY JOURNALISM

Support Now
March 25, 2016 2:03 am

Rain, snow likely in Kashmir

Share

The weather across Jammu and Kashmir is likely to remain inclement with rainfall and snow in the next three days, the Met Office said on Thursday.

 “We are expecting rain in the plains and snowfall in the higher reaches,” Sonam Lotus, director of the state Met department, told IANS.

 “The would be lesser rainfall activity during this period than was witnessed in the state last week,” the official said.

 Jammu and Kashmir was lashed by heavy rains and snowfall last week forcing closure of roads and highways.

 The rain also triggered landslides on the over 300-km long Jammu-Srinagar national highway which had remained closed for four days.

 Meanwhile, the minimum temperature was 5.5 degrees Celsius in Srinagar city on Thursday.

 It was 1.0 degree Celsius in Gulmarg and 1.6 degrees Celsius in Pahalgam tourist resorts.

Leh and Kargil towns of the Ladakh region recorded minus 2.4 and minus 3.4 degrees Celsius as day’s minimum temperatures respectively.

In the Jammu region, the minimum temperature was 15.2 degrees Celsius in Jammu city while the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine base camp town of Katra recorded 14.4 degrees Celsius, Batote 10.5 degrees Celsius, Bannihal 6.6 degrees Celsuius, Bhaderwah 7.1 degrees Celsius and Udhampur 9.7 degrees Celsius as the minimum temperature on Thursday.

Follow this link to join our WhatsApp group: Join Now

Be Part of Quality Journalism

Quality journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce and despite all the hardships we still do it. Our reporters and editors are working overtime in Kashmir and beyond to cover what you care about, break big stories, and expose injustices that can change lives. Today more people are reading Kashmir Observer than ever, but only a handful are paying while advertising revenues are falling fast.

ACT NOW
MONTHLYRs 100
YEARLYRs 1000
LIFETIMERs 10000

CLICK FOR DETAILS

*