SRINAGAR — Due to nightlong cloud cover, minimum temperature improved across Jammu and Kashmir on Monday with Srinagar city recording minus 3.6 degree celsius as the minimum temperature. The Meteorological (MeT) department said the improvement in minimum temperature will continue for another two days after which another spell of extreme cold is likely to occur […]
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Omar Abdullah cancels programmes in Jammu amid severe cold wave in valley
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday said he has cancelled all his forthcoming programmes in Jammu and would station himself in Srinagar to personally oversee the functioning of the power department and other essential services in view of the severe cold wave in the valley. Kashmir valley is reeling under […]
Battling power cuts amid severe cold, Kashmiris fall back on kangris, hamams to keep warm
SRINAGAR — The residents of Kashmir are going back to traditional ways of coping with the intense cold wave conditions as frequent and unscheduled power cuts have rendered modern heating gadgets useless. Kashmir is witnessing Chilla-i-Kalan, the 40-day harshest winter period. Srinagar city witnessed the coldest night in 33 years as the minimum dipped to […]
Srinagar records season’s lowest minimum temperature at minus 6.2 degrees Celsius
SRINAGAR — As mercury dropped to minus 6.2 degrees Celsius on Friday, J&K’s Srinagar city recorded the season’s lowest minimum temperature. MET Department officials said that at minus 6.2 degrees Celsius, Srinagar city recorded the lowest minimum temperature of this season so far. Gulmarg had minus 6 degrees Celsius while Pahalgam recorded minus 8.2 degrees […]
Kashmir reels under intense cold as Srinagar records season’s coldest night
SRINAGAR — At minus 6 degrees Celsius on Thursday, Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K) Srinagar city recorded the lowest minimum temperature of the season so far as severe cold swept across the Valley. MET Department officials said that the minimum temperature dropped to minus 6 degrees Celsius on Thursday in Srinagar city, which is the lowest […]
Srinagar shivers at minus 5.3 degree as cold wave intensifies in J&K
SRINAGAR — Minimum temperature dropped to bone-chilling minus 5.3 in Srinagar city on Tuesday as an intense cold wave swept across Jammu and Kashmir with wind blowing into the mainland from snowclad mountains. MET department officials said that the minimum temperature dropped to minus 5.3 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, a shade less than minus 5.4 […]
Feeble winter sun battles clouds as J&K reels under dry cold weather
SRINAGAR — Minimum temperature remained notches below the freezing point in the Kashmir on Monday as the feeble winter sun peeped through a thin haze of clouds in Jammu. The sky remained cloudy in the Valley as sunlight trickled through a thin cloud cover in the Jammu division. Cold wave conditions continued in the Valley […]
Cold wave to intensify in J&K, MeT forecasts light snow on December 22
SRINAGAR — Cold wave conditions are expected to intensify further in Jammu and Kashmir as the Meteorological (MeT) office issued an advisory on Sunday forecasting light snow in the higher reaches on December 22. The minimum temperature was minus 3.4 degrees Celsius in Srinagar city on Sunday while it was minus 3.8 in Gulmarg and […]
Kashmir records dip in temperatures, MeT forecast dry weather till December 21
SRINAGAR — A day after plain areas in Kashmir received the season’s first snowfall, the minimum temperatures dropped across the valley on Friday, with the weather department predicting a cold wave at many places over the next four days, officials said. The night temperatures decreased across the valley, after the snowfall in the higher reaches […]
Fresh snowfall in higher reaches of Kashmir, minimum temperature improves
SRINAGAR — Higher reaches of Kashmir received fresh snowfall on Thursday as the minimum temperature improved with Srinagar city recording minus 0.5 degrees Celsius as the lowest temperature. Fresh snowfall occurred in Gulmarg, Sonamarg, Zojila Pass, Doodpathri and other places as the nightlong cloud cover brought up the night temperature. The Meteorological (MeT) department officials […]