No major snowfall prediction, weather to remain dry till Dec 5: Sonum Lotus

Srinagar, Nov 24: Director Meteorological department, Sonum Lotus on Wednesday said that there is no prediction for any major snowfall as the weather will remain dry till December 05.
Sonum Lotus said that tomorrow the weather will be bit cloudy with light snowfall in the higher reaches particularly in north Kashmir and Zojila Pass, but there is no prediction for any major snowfall. “The weather will remain dry till December 05.”
He also advised people not to use heating appliances much during night and allow fresh air to come into the rooms for ventilation in order to prevent themselves from suffocation.
“During winters people tend to use heating appliances to keep themselves warm and leave no room for fresh air to come which creates carbon monoxide inside the room, making it harmful. So people should take care of these thing while using heating appliances,” he said.
Lotus said that people should turn off their heating appliances before going to sleep as recently there was an incident of death due to suffocation in Ganderbal.
Meanwhile, a day after Srinagar recorded the season’s coldest night so far, the minimum temperatures rise in the summer capital and elsewhere in Kashmir Valley.
The meteorological department official said that mercury settled at 0.3°C against previous night’s minus 1.7°C which happened to be the coldest low temperature recorded so far this season.
Qazigund recorded a minimum temperature of minus 0.6°C against minus 2.2°C on the previous night, he said. It was minus 0.7°C below normal for the gateway town of Kashmir, the official said.
Pahalgam, the famous resort in south Kashmir, recorded a low of minus 2.0°C against minus 4.4°C on previous night and it remained the coldest place across J&K.
Kokernag, also in south Kashmir, recorded a low of minus 0.1°C against minus 1.1°C on previous night and normal of 0.6°C, the official said.
Kupwara town in north Kashmir recorded a low of minus 0.3°C against minus 3.0°C on the previous night, the official said.
Gulmarg, the world famous skiing resort in north Kashmir, recorded a minimum of 0.0°C against minus 3.0°C on the previous night, the official said.
Ladakh’s Leh recorded a low of minus 7.1°C against last night’s minus 8.5°C while Kargil town recorded a low of minus 2.6°C. Drass in Kargil, the second coldest place in the world after Siberia, recorded a low of minus 8.7°C, the official said.