VIDEO:The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was today closed for vehicular traffic due to heavy snowfall, a senior official said.Over 400 passenger vehicles were stranded at different places after police closed down the 300-km long highway, which is a major road link connecting. People had expectantly been waiting for the seasons first snowfall, but Srinagar city and all other major towns of the Valley got nothing more than a little rain Thursday.There has been around 40 centimetres deep snowfall in Gulmarg, one centimetre in Pahalgam and two centimetres in Bhaderwah, said met department officials. Rain and snowfall is likely to occur during the next 24 hours after which the weather would start improving. Due to nightlong cloud cover, there was improvement in minimum temperatures across the state today (Thursday). The minimum temperature in Srinagar city was 1.8 degrees Celsius. It was minus 4 degrees Celsius in Gulmarg and zero degrees Celsius in Pahalgam.Leh town recorded minus 6.2 degrees Celsius and Kargil town minus 5 degrees Celsius as the minimum temperatures today (Thursday).
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:30:05 +0000
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