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| Gulmarg with -4.8 degrees becomes colder than Leh and Kargil | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Mar 22 : The world famous ski resort of Gulmarg was colder than Leh and Kargil in Ladakh region, which remained cut off from the rest of the state since December 1 last year due to closure of Zojila pass following accumulation of more than 10 feet of snow.
Though there was improvement in the weather condition in the Kashmir valley, but the minimum and maximum temperature remained below normal.
A Met department spokesman said here today that there would be no major changes in the weather condition in the Kashmir valley during the next 24 hours.
He said Gulmarg with minus 4.8 degrees was coldest place in the valley. However, it was one degree up by yesterday when the minimum was recorded minus 5.5 degrees.
There was also improvement in the minimum temperature at Pahalgam, a health resort in Anantnag district.
The minimum was at minus 2.2 degrees this morning, one notch up against yesterday.
People in the summer capital, Srinagar, continued to wear woollen and warm clothes, as the minimum temperature remained one degree below normal. It was 3.2 degrees this morning, Met spokesman said adding that the maximum temperature yesterday was 11 degrees, again three degree below normal.
There was however, considerable improvement in the minimum temperature at Qazigund, gateway to Kashmir valley in south Kashmir.
The 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu National Highway remained open for both ways today, a traffic police official said.
The minimum temperature in other parts of the Kashmir valley also was up by one to two degree against yesterday. However, all roads leading to far flung and remote areas near the Line of Control (LoC) remained closed due to snowfall in Kupwara and Bandipora districts.
The Met department spokesman said there was about two degree improvement in the minimum temperature at Leh and Kargil in Ladakh region this morning. Against yesterdays minus 6.2 degrees at Kargil, a border town on Srinagar-Leh highway, it was minus 4.4 degrees this morning.
At Leh it was minus 3 degrees against yesterday's minus 5 degrees minimum temperature, he said.
The Ladakh region remained cut off from the rest of the state since December 1 last year due to heavy snowfall between Sonamarg and Drass, the second coldest place in the world after Siberia.
Snow clearance operation by Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has already commenced from both sides of the Zojila pass, where the Centre and State Government have agreed to construct a tunnel to make it all weather road.
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