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| Fresh snowfall in Kashmir valley | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR Feb 25: The entire Kashmir valley, including Srinagar, experienced a fresh spell of snowfall this evening as the cold wave tightened its grip over the region.
The snowfall in Srinagar and other areas of the Valley followed light drizzle late afternoon, plummeting the day temperature to two degrees below normal.
Intermittent snowfall continued in the high altitude areas for the third day, resulting in a fall in night temperature which settled below freezing point in most parts of the Valley, excluding Srinagar, officials said.
Jawahar Tunnel, gateway to Kashmir, in Pir Panjal mountain range, received another bout of snowfall this afternoon but it failed to disrupt traffic on Srinagar-Jammu national highway which reopened today after a day-long closure due to landslides and slippery condition.
"The traffic on the highway, which links Kashmir with rest of the country, was plying smoothly when last reports were received,” the officials said.
The snow and rains resulted in cold wave conditions in the Valley as the maximum temperature in Srinagar was recorded at 7.4 degrees Celsius – two degrees below normal during this part of the season.
The minimum temperature recorded in Srinagar was 0.3 degrees Celsius, a dip of two degrees compared to the previous night, a MET officce spokesman said.
However, he said Kargil in the frontier region of Ladakh was the coldest place in the State with a maximum of minus 2.0 and a minimum of minus 15.0 degrees Celsius.
Leh, also in the cold desert of Ladakh, recorded a high of 4.2 degrees Celsius and a low of minus 6.0 degrees Celsius, the spokesman said.
He said the famous ski resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir was the coldest place in the Valley as the night temperature slipped to minus 9.5 degrees Celsius. (
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