Srinagar, Dec 30: The minimum temperature recorded further increase in Kashmir Valley on Friday due to a cloud cover, officials said today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kupwara in north Kashmir received highest snowfall of 20cms (7.87 inches) followed by Gulmarg (16.5cm), Qazigund(15.0cm), Pahalgam (10.0cm), Kokernag (5.0 cm), and Srinagar (3.0 cm) in last 24 hours till 0830 hours, mostly late in the afternoon on Thursday, a meteorological department official told GNS. Ladakh\u2019s Leh district also received traces of snowfall, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, most places recorded a rise in night temperature and for the first time in more than fortnight that mercury increased above normal in the Valley even though it hovered in sub-zero level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Srinagar recorded a low of minus 0.3\u00b0C against last night\u2019s temperature of minus 3.2\u00b0C. The temperature was 1.8\u00b0C above normal for the summer capital, the official said. Srinagar has so far seen the coldest temperature this season on December 25 when mercury plummeted to minus 5.8\u00b0C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Qazigund recorded a low of minus 2.0\u00b0C against minus 3.2\u00b0C on the previous night. The temperature was 0.3\u00b0C above normal for the gateway town of Kashmir, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pahalgam, he said, recorded a low of minus 4.9\u00b0C against minus 4.5\u00b0C on the previous night. The minimum temperature was 0.3\u00b0C above normal for the famous tourist resort in south Kashmir\u2019s Anantnag district, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kokernag recorded a low of minus 2.0\u00b0C against minus 2.3\u00b0C on the previous night, he said. It was 0.7\u00b0C above normal for the place, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gulmarg recorded a low of minus 5.5\u00b0C against minus 4.8\u00b0C on the previous night, the official said. It was 0.7\u00b0C above normal for the world famous skiing resort in north Kashmir\u2019s Baramulla district, the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Kupwara town, the mercury settled at minus 0.8\u00b0C against minus 3.3\u00b0C on the previous night in the north Kashmir area, he said. The official said that the temperature was 1.7\u00b0C above normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jammu recorded a low of 7.3\u00b0C against 6.0\u00b0C on the previous night. It was 0.1\u00b0C below normal for J&K\u2019s winter capital which also remained engulfed in fog this morning, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Banihal recorded a low of 0.8\u00b0C (above normal by 0.3\u00b0C), Batote minus 0.5\u00b0C (below normal by 2.7\u00b0C), Katra 6.5\u00b0C (0.1\u00b0C below normal) and Bhadarwah 1.8\u00b0C (2.4\u00b0C above normal).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Ladakh, Leh and Kargil recorded a low of minus 10.2\u00b0C and 6.2\u00b0C respectively, the official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Srinagar, Dec 30: The minimum temperature recorded further increase in Kashmir Valley on Friday due to a cloud cover, officials said today. Kupwara in north Kashmir received highest snowfall of 20cms (7.87 inches) followed by Gulmarg (16.5cm), Qazigund(15.0cm), Pahalgam (10.0cm), Kokernag (5.0 cm), and Srinagar (3.0 cm) in last 24 hours till 0830 hours, mostly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jammu","category-kashmir"],"yoast_head":"\n