Temps improve, fog continues

Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 23: A day after recording the season’s coldest temperature at minus 1.8°C, Srinagar witnessed another sub-zero night with a little bit of improvement in the night temperature.
The dense fog in Kashmir continued for the fourth consecutive day leading to intense cold weather conditions during the morning. The fog led to slowing down of the traffic across Kashmir, especially highway.
A Meteorological Department official said that shallow to moderate fog is likely to continue till November 28 over many places of Kashmir.
A Meteorological Department official said that there was a slight increase in minimum temperature across the Valley including Srinagar which recorded a low of minus 0.8°C against minus 1.8°C the previous night. The temperature was minus 0.9°C below normal for this time of the year in the capital city.
Qazigund recorded a minimum of minus 0.5°C against minus 0.8°C the previous night. The minimum temperature was minus 0.5°C below normal for the place.
Pahalgam recorded a low of minus 1.8°C against minus 3.3°C the previous night and it was 0.6°C above normal for the place.
Kokernag, also in south Kashmir, recorded a minimum of 0.7°C which was above normal for the place by around 0.1°C.
Kupwara town recorded a low of 0.2°C which was 0.7°C above normal.
Gulmarg recorded a low of 0.4°C and it was above 2.5°C above normal for the world famous skiing resort.
Regarding the forecast, the official said, generally cloudy weather is expected with light rain/snow at isolated higher reaches in next 24 hours.
From 24th-26th November, he said, generally dry weather is expected. From 27th-30th November, he said, generally cloudy weather with light rain/snow at isolated higher reaches is expected.
From 1st-3rd December, he said, partly to generally cloudy weather is expected.