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“Cold conditions prevailed crossed Kashmir connected Thursday (January 22, 2026) with minimum temperatures dropping astatine astir places and a occidental disturbance expected to impact the portion aboriginal successful the time and apt bring caller snowfall,” officials said.
“There was a alteration successful nighttime temperatures astatine astir places successful Kashmir and the mercury settled beneath the freezing constituent crossed the valley,” they said.
“The minimum somesthesia successful Srinagar dropped by a grade from the erstwhile nighttime to settee astatine a debased of minus 3.4 degrees Celsius connected Wednesday night,” officials said.
Tourist edifice of Sonamarg successful cardinal Kashmir's Ganderbal territory was the coldest recorded places successful the vale astatine minus 6.1 degrees Celsius — down from minus 5.5 degrees Celsius the erstwhile night.
“The fashionable skis edifice of Gulmarg, successful northbound Kashmir's Baramulla district, recorded a debased of minus 4 degrees Celsius,” officials said.
“The Pahalgam tourer edifice successful southbound Kashmir, which besides serves arsenic 1 of the basal camps for the yearly Amarnath Yatra, recorded a debased of minus 4.4 degrees Celsius, down from the erstwhile night's minus 3.8 degrees Celsius,” they said.
“The minimum somesthesia successful Qazigund, the gateway municipality of the valley, settled astatine minus 3.8 degrees Celsius, portion Kokernag recorded a debased of minus 2.6 degrees Celsius and Kupwara minus 3.7 degrees Celsius,” they added.
“Two beardown occidental disturbances are apt to impact Jammu and Kashmir this week, with the archetypal 1 making its interaction connected Thursday (January 22, 2026), and different connected January 26,” officials said.
“Under the power of these systems, wide airy to mean rainfall/snowfall is expected, including successful the plains of the valley,” they said.
They said the main enactment of these upwind systems would hap connected January 23 and January 27.
“The upwind strategy opening connected Thursday (January 22, 2026) could extremity the prolonged adust spell successful the plains of Kashmir arsenic the Met bureau has forecast the anticipation of airy to mean snowfall successful the plains, including Srinagar,” officials said. “The strategy could disrupt the aboveground and aerial traffic,” they said.
Kashmir Valley is presently successful the midst of 'Chilla-i-Kalan', a 40-day play of utmost acold during which nighttime temperatures often driblet respective degrees beneath the freezing point, and the chances of snowfall are the highest. 'Chilla-i-Kalan', which began connected December 21 past year, ends connected January 30.
While the higher reaches of Kashmir person received spells of snowfall, the plains of the vale person remained snowless truthful acold this winter.
