Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Feb 5: With overnight cloud cover, the minimum temperature in Kashmir today settled above normal bringing respite to the people of the region.
A Meteorological Department official said that the mercury settled at 1.0 degree Celsius against the previous night’s 0.4 degree Celsius.
The minimum temperatures have consistently remained far below normal this season. On January 31, the mercury plunged to minus 8.8 degree Celsius, the coldest January night recorded after 30 years.
The minimum temperature also improved in other parts of the Valley today.
The mercury settled at minus 3.6 degree Celsius in Pahalgam in south Kashmir against minus 3.3 degree Celsius the previous night while Qazigund recorded a low of minus 0.8 degree Celsius, same as the previous night.
Kokernag recorded a minimum of minus 1.3 degree Celsius against minus 5.1 degree Celsius the previous night.
The mercury settled at 0.8 degree Celsius in Kupwara against minus 2.3 degree Celsius the previous night while Gulmarg recorded a low of minus 9.4 degree Celsius against minus 6.4 degree Celsius last night and had 1.3 cms of fresh snowfall since yesterday.
He said there would be “isolated very light rain/snow on higher reaches of Pirpanjal in Jammu division and mainly dry weather over the plains of J&K” in the next 24 hours.
The dry weather has been forecast for the next one week in the plains of J&K.
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