Kashmir Weather Update: MeT Gives Fresh Update For Next 2 Days.

The MeT has forecasted a wet spell for the next two days in Kashmir, with upper reaches likely to receive moderate snowfall.

The Meteorological Office has forecast light rain and snow at isolated to scattered places in Jammu and Kashmir from Tuesday. As per a forecast issued by the MeT, “light spell of rains/snow is most likely to occur during intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday”.

The MeT forecast said higher reaches especially of north Kashmir may receive moderate snowfall during the two-day wet spell.

“However, there is no forecast of any heavy rains/snow during the spell of the Western Disturbance” the MeT forecast said.

Meanwhile, there was slight improvement in the minimum temperature recorded across Kashmir, but the mercury continued to settle several degrees below the freezing point during the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.

Srinagar recorded a low of minus 3 degrees Celsius, up by 0.6 degrees from the intervening night of Friday and Saturday, which was the coldest of the season so far, the MeT data said.

Gulmarg resort in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district recorded a low of minus 4.2 degrees Celsius during the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, up from minus 5.5 degrees Celsius the previous night.

The officials said Pahalgam in south Kashmir recorded a low of minus 5.4 degrees Celsius during the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. The resort was the coldest recorded place in the valley.

The mercury in Kupwara in north Kashmir settled at a low of minus 3.8 degrees Celsius during the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.