Kashmir valley, including the summer capital Srinagar, experienced fresh snowfall on Wednesday, even as the Met department said that the weather was likely to improve later today.
Fresh snowfall began at many places across the valley including Srinagar, breaking the intense cold wave conditions.
Pahalgam, tourist resort – which also serves as one of the base camps for the annual Amarnath Yatra – recorded three cm of fresh snow last night, an official a MeT official said.
He said Qazigund – the gateway town to the valley – in south Kashmir recorded a low of minus 2.9 degrees – up by over four degrees from minus 7.2 degrees Celsius on the previous night.
Kashmir is currently under the grip of ‘Chillai-Kalan’ – the 40-day harshest period of winter when the chances of snowfall are most frequent and maximum and the temperature drops considerably.
