MeT Forecasts

hope then with bated breath. Experts unanimously say it is high time that adaptation measures are adopted even as climate change calls for a concerted global action.

“Since this is something that has to do with global weather circulation patterns, there isn’t much we can do besides reducing our carbon footprint. However, the mitigation and adaptation strategies need to be framed through informed scientific knowledge,” Dr Irfan Rashid, Assistant Professor, Department of Geoinformatics, University of Kashmir said.

and Shopian at minus 6.9 degrees Celsius, the officials said.

Srinagar city recorded a minimum temperature of minus 5.3 degrees Celsius on Tuesday night, marginally down from previous night’s minus 5.3 degrees Celsius, the officials said.

Pahalgam in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, which serves as one of the base camps for the annual Amarnath Yatra, recorded a minimum temperature of minus 6.3 degrees Celsius.

They said Qazigund town in south Kashmir recorded a low of minus 5.4 degrees Celsius and the ski resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir recorded a low of minus 4.8 degrees Celsius.

The minimum temperature in Kokernag town settled at minus 2.3 degrees Celsius and in Kupwara at minus 5.3 degrees Celsius.

A dry and largely snowless winter in Kashmir has resulted in freezing nights and warmer than usual days as Srinagar day temperatures were over eight degrees above the normal temperature for this time of the year, officials said here.

Kashmir has been going through a prolonged dry spell and a 79 per cent deficit in rainfall was recorded for December while there has been no precipitation in most parts of the valley in the first three weeks of January. There has been no snowfall in most plain areas of Kashmir, while the upper reaches of the valley have received lesser than usual amount of snow.