Srinagar: The higher reaches in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora received light snowfall on Saturday amid the prediction of more light rain and snow during the next 24 hours, officials said.
They said the Razdan top along the Bandipora Gurez road received light snow.
As a precautionary measure, the administration has suspended vehicular movement on Gurez Bandipora road.
Meanwhile, the night temperatures across Kashmir witnessed a rise due to overcast skies.
The Meteorological Department (IMD) said that Srinagar recorded a minimum temperature of 1 degree Celsius, up from the previous night’s minus 1 degree Celsius.
MeT said that Qazigund, Pahalgam, Konibal, Pulwama, and Shopian weather stations were the only places in the Kashmir region where the minimum temperature settled below the freezing point.
The tourist resort of Pahalgam in south Kashmir experienced another chilly night, with the mercury settling at minus 1.5°C, 2.8°C below the normal. The previous night the minimum temperature at Pahalgam was minus 3.4 degrees Celsius.
Gulmarg, the renowned ski destination in north Kashmir, registered a minimum of 0.5°C, which is 3.3°C above normal. Gulmarg had registered a low of zero degrees Celsius on the previous night.
North Kashmir border town of Kupwara recorded a low of 3.4 degrees Celsius.
The Jammu city recorded 10.7 degrees, Katra 11.6, Batote 6.5, Banihal 3.1, and Bhaderwah 3.1 as the minimum temperature.
The MeT has predicted wet weather in Kashmir from Saturday.
They said generally cloudy with light rain and snow in higher reaches is expected at isolated places on Saturday.
On December 1, the weather is expected to be partly cloudy, with light rain or snow likely at isolated locations in the higher reaches.
For the next two days, light rain or snow is anticipated at scattered places in the higher reaches.
The weather is likely to remain dry between December 4-7.
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