Many areas in the northern states reeled under intense cold conditions and high-altitude areas of Himachal Pradesh experienced fresh snowfall today, even as the arterial Srinagar-Jammu National Highway was thrown open for one-way traffic after five days.
Twenty five trains were running late due to fog in northern states. Five trains were rescheduled while Jai Nagar-Amritsar Shahid Express was cancelled, a railway official said.
The nearly 300-km long Srinagar-Jammu National Highway, the only all-weather road link between Kashmir and the rest of the country, was thrown open for one-way traffic, five days after snowfall in the Valley had led to its closure.
Following improvement in weather, the highway was cleared of snow and debris due to landslides and one-way traffic was allowed this morning, an official of the Traffic Control department told PTI.
Kashmir witnessed fresh snowfall on Tuesday which continued intermittently yesterday as well, affecting flight operations at Srinagar airport.
While morning flights were delayed yesterday, all flights in the afternoon were cancelled due to snowfall. This morning as well, the flights were delayed, an official at the airport said.
It was a pleasant weather in the national capital with mercury settling at 10.6 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season's average.
According to Safdarjung observatory, the reading of which is considered the official figure for the city, the maximum temperature was recorded at 21.5 degree Celsius, one notch below normal.
Most areas in Kashmir received rains and snow yesterday, but the weather was mainly dry for most part of the night.
Leh in Ladakh region was the coldest recorded place in Kashmir division last night. The mercury in Leh settled at minus 5.2 degrees Celsius, up nearly five degrees from the previous night's low of minus 10.1 degrees Celsius, an MeT department official said.
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