Srinagar, Jan 7 || The minimum temperature improved marginally across Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, as Srinagar city recorded minus 1.6 degrees Celsius.
Due to partial night-long cloud cover, the minimum temperature improved in Jammu and Kashmir as Srinagar recorded minus 1.6, Gulmarg minus 7.6 and Pahalgam minus 7.2.
Jammu city recorded 8.7 degrees Celsius, Katra town 6.2, Batote 3.1, Banihal 2.3 and Bhaderwah minus 2.6 as the night's lowest temperature.
The Meteorological Department has forecast that, except for a few feeble Western Disturbances causing light snowfall in the higher reaches, weather in Jammu and Kashmir is expected to remain cold, cloudy and generally dry till January 20.
The absence of a major snowfall in the Valley and the absence of this season's first snowfall in the plains have caused a lot of concern among the people, as the prospects of better fruit, agriculture and potable water in the hot summer months depend totally on a heavy winter snowfall.