| Weather remains pleasant in Kashmir, mercury below normal | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 25: Weather remained pleasant in the Kashmir valley, where the mercury was below normal after fresh rain during the past 24 hours.
However, the weather will remain mainly dry in Jammu and Kashmir during the next 48 hours, a Met department spokesman said here this afternoon.
He said there is a possibility of isolated rain in summer capital, Srinagar and central Kashmir district of Badgam and Ramban in Jammu region today. Weather is likely to remain dry elsewhere in the state, he said.
People woke up to yet another cloudy morning in the Kashmir valley though the sun was also making appearance occasionally.
All the tourist places, particularly famed ski resort of Gulmarg, Pahalgam, Sonamarg, Yusmarg, Ahrabal and Deksum in the valley besides Pir-Ki-Gali on historic Mughal road are flooded with tourists, mostly from plains, where the heat wave has claimed scores of lives.
After recording 29.4 mm rainfall, Gulmarg witnessed a major drop in the mercury, lowest in the valley. The maximum temperature yesterday was just 8 degrees, 8 notches below normal while the minimum temperature was 4 degrees, three degrees below normal.
At Pahalgam, base camp of annual pilgrimage to holy Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas, the maximum temperature witnessed considerable drop and settled at 15.2 degrees, 9 degrees below normal after 14.2 mm rainfall during the past 24 hours.However, the minimum temperature was 8.5 degrees, 1.5 notches above normal.
Kupwara in north Kashmir also recorded 10 degree below normal maximum temperature yesterday tough the minimum temperature was a notch above normal. There was 26 mm rainfall during the past two days, he said.
Due to fresh rain the maximum temperature at Qazigund, gateway of Kashmir and Kokernag , a tourist resort in south was 8 degrees and 9 degrees below normal respectively. However, the minimum temperature was more than a degrees above normal.
People continued to enjoy pleasant weather in the summer capital, Srinagar, where 9.9 mm rainfall was recorded during the past 24 hours. Against yesterday's 12.8 degrees, the minimum temperature in the city was 11.6 degree, half a notch below normal.
However, the maximum temperature yesterday was 15.7 degrees, more than 9 degrees below normal.
He said the sky would be partly cloudy and the maximum and minimum temperatures would be around 26 degrees and 11 degrees respectively during the next 24 hours in the city.
Leh in Ladakh also recorded drop in the minimum temperature while it remained unchaged at Kargil, a border town on Srinagar-Leh national highway.
Against yesterdays 12.4 degrees, the minimum temperature was 8.1 degrees at Leh while at Kargil it was 7.2 degrees against yesterday's 7 degree, he said.
They sky would be mainly clear and the maximum and minimum temperatures would be around 24 degrees and 10 degree respectively during the next 24 hours at Leh. |
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