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Kashmir rang successful the New Year amid caller snowfall astatine fashionable tourer resorts and higher reaches of the valley, with the meteorological section forecasting an betterment successful upwind aboriginal successful the day, officials said connected Thursday (January 1, 2026).
Tourist resorts including Gulmarg, Pahalgam and Sonamarg received caller overnight snowfall that continued till Thursday morning, drafting ample numbers of revellers, they said.
Several higher reaches— Tulail Valley successful Gurez, Razdan Top successful Bandipora, Macchil and Sadhna Top successful Kupwara, and Zojila Pass— besides received caller snowfall, officials said.
They said determination was a anticipation of airy rain/snow showers successful immoderate areas arsenic the trailing portion of a prevalent occidental disturbance moves distant by the evening, starring to gradual betterment successful weather.
A little spell of airy rainfall oregon snowfall may, however, hap astatine isolated places connected Friday (January 2, 2026).
Due to a unreality cover, the nighttime temperatures remained higher than the seasonal mean and settled supra the freezing constituent astatine astir places, officials said.
Despite the caller snow, the vale continues to acquisition an unusually lukewarm winter, with temperatures hovering 1.2 to 6.3 degrees Celsius supra the seasonal average, officials said.
On Wednesday (December 31, 2025) night, Srinagar recorded a minimum somesthesia of 2.2 degrees Celsius, which was 4.6 degrees Celsius supra the mean for this clip of year, they said.
Gulmarg remained the coldest determination successful the portion with the mercury settling astatine minus 5.5 degrees Celsius, 2.5 degrees beneath the erstwhile night, officials said.
In southbound Kashmir, Pahalgam recorded a debased of minus 0.4 degrees Celsius, 6.3 degrees supra the mean temperature, and Qazigund, the gateway municipality of the valley, saw the mercury settee astatine 2 degrees Celsius, 5 degrees supra normal.
The portion is presently going done 'Chilla-e-Kalan', a 40-day play of utmost cold. During this phase, nighttime temperatures typically driblet respective degrees beneath the freezing point. However, existent readings amusement a departure from mean patterns.
During this play of utmost weather, the chances of snowfall are astir predominant and maximum arsenic well. However, the plains of the vale person not received immoderate snowfall truthful acold this season.
