MeT department has predicted that dry cold weather will continue for the next two weeks in J&K, with no major snowfall forecast in the region.
“Weather is most likely to remain cold and dry till ending November in whole J&K. However, there’s 40-50% chance of very light snowfall over extreme North Kashmir on November 25. Overall, there’s no forecast of any major weather for next two weeks,” the weather department wrote on twitter.
Meanwhile, freezing cold conditions continued unabated in Kashmir Valley.
Srinagar, the summer capital of J&K, experienced the coldest night of the season with temperature dropping as low as minus 1.7 degrees Celsius on Monday, the Met office said.
The officials said Pahalgam at minus 3.7 degrees Celsius was the coldest recorded place in Kashmir .
Gulmarg resort in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district recorded a minimum temperature of minus 0.8 degrees Celsius.
The mercury in Kupwara in north Kashmir settled at a low of minus 2.9 degrees Celsius.