The minimum temperature at most places in Kashmir decreased owing to fresh snowfall and rains across the Valley, with the MeT department predicting more wet spells in the coming days.
"A fresh western disturbance would affect Jammu and Kashmir from February 23 evening. The wet spells would continue till that and there would be significant increase in precipitation till February 25," a MeT department spokesperson said here.
He said the tourist resorts of Gulmarg and Pahalgam as well as Qazigund and Kupwara towns and most of the places in the higher reaches of Kashmir received fresh snowfall today, while other parts of the Valley received intermittent rains for the fifth consecutive day.
"Around one foot of fresh snow accumulated in Gulmarg during the night, while Pahalgam recorded 7 cm of fresh snowfall," he said.
He said the minimum temperature in Gulmarg, the famous ski-resort in north Kashmir and the star attraction for tourists especially skiers from abroad, settled at minus 3 degrees Celsius - up by over a degree from minus 4.4 degrees Celsius yesterday.
The mercury in Pahalgam hill resort in south which serves as the base camp for the annual Amarnath yatra settled at a low of minus 0.6 degree Celsius - again over a degree up from minus 1.8 degrees Celsius yesterday, the spokesman said.
Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir received 25 mm of rainfall in the night and the city recorded a low of 0.4 degree Celsius - down by nearly four degrees from 4 degrees Celsius the previous night, he said.
Qazigund on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway received 15 cm of snow till 8:30 AM and recorded a low of 0.4 degree Celsius - a decrease of nearly three degrees from 3.2 degrees Celsius the previous night, the spokesman said.
