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With more rains, cold returns to Kashmir, Ladakh
3/29/2011 10:14:13 PM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Mar 29: Cold conditions prevailed across Kashmir valley as more rains lashed plains while upper reaches witnessed light to moderate snowfall during the past 24 hours.
Met department spokesman said that rain or thundershowers would occur at isolated places over Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours. However, in the summer capital, Srinagar, the sky would be partly cloudy with thunder development.
He said that Srinagar recorded 13.1 mm rainfall till 0800 hrs this morning, though the minimum temperature was 0.6 degree above normal. Gulmarg, the world famous ski resort in north Kashmir, remained the coldest in the Kashmir valley with minus 1.7 degrees this morning.
There was about two degree drop in the minimum temperature at Pahalgam, base camp of holy Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir. Against yesterday's 5 degree, the minimum at health resort settled at 3.2 degrees this morning, he said.
The minimum temperature elsewhere in the Valley also dropped by one to three degree against yesterday's temperature. Highest 47 mm rainfall was recorded at Kupwara followed by 24.3 mm at Qazigund on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway; Pahalgam received 21.6 mm rainfall and 20.4 at Kokernag.
Ladakh region, which remained cut off from the rest of the state due to closure of the Zojilla pass following snowfall since December 1 last year, remained mostly dry. Kargil, a border town on the highway was coldest with minus 1.5 degree minimum temperature.
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