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Kashmir is apt to look a spell of bedewed weather, including mean to dense snowfall successful the higher reaches, adjacent arsenic the nighttime somesthesia improved somewhat a time up of the onset of 'Chillai-Kalan' — the 40-day harsh wintertime period, officials said connected Saturday (December 20, 2025).
The section meteorological section has forecast a spell of bedewed upwind connected December 20-21, coinciding with the onset of 'Chillai-Kalan', which begins connected December 21 each twelvemonth and ends connected January 31.
Moderate to dense snowfall is expected successful the higher reaches of Kashmir, portion airy to mean precipitation whitethorn impact the plains, the upwind bureau said.
Chances of snowfall are maximum and astir predominant during this period, with temperatures dropping sharply crossed the Valley.
The Valley has not witnessed immoderate large bedewed spell truthful acold this winter. The adust upwind has led to an summation successful ailments specified arsenic cough and the communal cold.
The nighttime somesthesia improved crossed the Valley, with Pulwama emerging arsenic the coldest spot with a minimum of minus 3.2°C, according to the MeT office.
Srinagar recorded a debased of -0.4°C, astir 2° up from the erstwhile night's -2.1°C, the officials said.
A heavy furniture of fog engulfed Srinagar and astir different parts of the Valley connected Saturday (December 20, 2025) morning, particularly adjacent the h2o bodies.
In southbound Kashmir, Pahalgam, 1 of the basal camps for the Amarnath Yatra, recorded a debased of -1°C, portion Kokernag and Qazigund recorded 0.8 and -1°C, respectively.
The somesthesia successful Kupwara successful northbound Kashmir settled astatine -0.7°C, the upwind section said.
In Gulmarg, the minimum somesthesia settled supra the freezing constituent astatine 2°C, it said.
