Srinagar: Deputy Director of the Indian Metrological Department in Srinagar, Mukhtar Ahmed said that the weather will deteriorate from today afternoon to Tuesday afternoon.
Talking to a local news agency, Kashmir News Service (KNS), he said: “From today afternoon, [weather] system will start peaking, till tomorrow there will be snowfall. Then it will start receding from Tuesday afternoon and from 6th afternoon weather will start improving.”
He said that the MeT department had earlier predicted snowfall on the 4 and 5 January but it witnessed snowfall earlier due to the impact of three systems.
“Western disturbance impact will start from today. Three systems that are Cyclone circulation over Punjab, Gujrat, moisture feed from the Arabian area, cyclone over central India from the Bay of Bengal was the reason for rains in central India. The impact was noticed in J-K also.” he said. (KNS)