Srinagar, Apr 2: After witnessing incessant overnight rain, weather turned pleasant due to bright sunshine in the summer capital, Srinagar and other parts of the valley, where night temperature dipped and settled below normal.
A Met department spokesperson told UNI that light rain and thundershowers would occur at isolated places during the next 24 hours in Kashmir valley. “The weather will turn dry from Friday onwards,” he said, adding a fresh Western Disturbance (WD) is expected to hit the region on Monday.
However, he said the intensity of the WD is very low and could result in light rain at isolated places in the valley on Monday and Tuesday. “The weather will again turn dry from April 8 onwards,” he added.
The night temperature dipped about 2 degree from Wednesday and settled at 4.2 degree due to incessant overnight rain in Srinagar. People woke up to a chilly and rainy Thursday morning. However, as the day progressed sun came out from behind the clouds, resulting in major improvement in the day temperature. The minimum temperature was 2 degree below normal.
He said skies would be partly cloudy during the next 24 hours in Srinagar, where maximum and minimum temperatures will be around 18 degree and 4 degree, respectively.
World famous ski resort of Gulmarg, about 55 km from here in north Kashmir, was the only place in the valley where the night temperature was below freezing point. Against minus 1 degree recorded on Wednesday, the night temperature in the ski resort was minus 2.6 degree, which is about 2 degree below normal. But, the day temperature improved as sun came out from behind the cloud in the ski resort, which remained deserted due to lockdown to curtail spread of Coronavirus.
World famous health resort of Pahalgam, about 100 km from here in south Kashmir, witnessed a dip of about 3 degree in the night temperature due to overnight rain. At 0.6 degree, the night temperature in the health resort was about a degree below normal.
The mercury at Qazigund, gateway to the valley, Kupwara in north Kashmir and tourist resort of Kokerag dipped and settled at 4.2 degree, 3 degree and 3.1 degree, respectively.
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