Srinagar- The Kashmir Valley is basking in solar, nonetheless ready for the primary snowfall of the season whilst Chillai Kalan, the harshest 40-day interval, has crossed the midway mark. On Tuesday there was some respite from the coldwave circumstances however there was no forecast of any moist spell by the Met workplace.
Kashmir highlands and well-liked vacationer locations, just like the ski resort of Gulmarg that normally obtain a minimal of four-to-five ft thick snow by now stay barren, presenting a dry look.
Based on the India Meteorological Division’s (IMD) forecast there gained’t be any recent snowfall in Gulmarg the place the sky is anticipated to stay clear until January 15.
On Monday, Srinagar recorded an evening temperature of minus 2.4 levels Celsius, up from minus 4.3 levels the day before today, the officers stated.
Qazigund recorded a low of minus 2.6 levels Celsius in opposition to minus 4.2 levels on Sunday. The evening temperature within the ski resort city of Gulmarg in north Kashmir was minus 4.6 levels Celsius on Monday, barely down from the minimal temperature the earlier evening.
Pahalgam in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district recorded a minimal temperature of minus 4.4 levels Celsius, up from the earlier evening’s minus 5.3 levels, they stated.
The minimal temperature in Kokernag settled at minus 1.2 levels Celsius and in Kupwara at minus 4.5 levels.
Kashmir is at the moment below the grip of ‘Chilla-i-Kalan’ — the 40-day harshest winter interval when a chilly wave grips the area and the temperature drops significantly, resulting in the freezing of water our bodies in addition to water provide strains in a number of elements of the Valley.
The probabilities of snowfall are the very best throughout this era and most areas, significantly the upper reaches, obtain heavy snowfall.
Kashmir has been going by a chronic dry spell with a 79 per cent deficit in rainfall being recorded for December. There was no precipitation within the first week of January.
There was no snowfall in most plain areas of Kashmir whereas the higher reaches of the Valley have obtained much less snow than traditional. The Met workplace has forecast primarily dry climate until January 12.
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