Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 2: The minimum temperature today rose and stayed above the freezing point at most places in Kashmir owing to a cloud cover as the weather is expected to remain dry over the next week.
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The night temperature rose at several places in the Valley with Gulmarg and Pahalgam being the only places where the mercury settled below the freezing point on Friday night.
The minimum temperature in Srinagar was 4.8 degrees Celsius, marginally up from the previous night’s 4.5 degrees Celsius.
Qazigund recorded a low of 3.4 degrees Celsius, up from 2.2 degrees Celsius the previous night. Kokernag town in south Kashmir registered a minimum of 2.2 degrees Celsius, while Kupwara, in the north, recorded a low of 2.3 degrees Celsius.
Pahalgam recorded a low of minus 0.4 degrees Celsius, while the mercury in Gulmarg settled at minus 3.0 degrees Celsius.
The three-week dry spell in Kashmir ended on Thursday with snowfall in the middle and higher reaches of the Valley and rains in the plains.
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