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Glaciers across J&K melting fast, need ‘Continuous Monitoring’

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Glaciers across J&K melting fast, need ‘Continuous Monitoring’

Junaid Nabi Bazaz More alarming evidence has come to the fore that Jammu and Kashmir are sitting on an imminent climatic disaster. The bad news has come both from a central government report as well as from the well-known Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSW).According to the CSE report, all the 10 glaciers in Jammu and Kashmir are among the 39 glaciers in India that have been found to be at high risk.As per the report, these glaciers are melting fast, with a 40 percent increase in their water…

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As Srinagar sizzles at 34.7, MeT predicts a 2-day wet spell from Saturday

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As Srinagar sizzles at 34.7, MeT predicts a 2-day wet spell from Saturday

After witnessing scorching heatwave conditions for the last three days, there is the possibility of a respite as the Meteorological Department has predicted a two-day wet spell in Jammu and Kashmir beginning Saturday and cloudy weather on Friday. Sweltering hot weather continued on Wednesday as the summer capital witnessed the hottest day of the season and recorded 34.7 degrees Celsius, 6.8 degrees Celsius above normal. This temperature is the second-highest June temperature in Srinagar in the last 11 years. This also makes Srinagar the hottest recorded weather station in the…

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At 31.9°C Srinagar recorded the hottest day of the season so far

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After witnessing considerably low temperatures in May, the mercury is gradually rising in the valley as summer capital Srinagar recorded a 31.9  degree Celsius on Sunday, which is the highest temperature of the season so far. Deputy Director Meteorological Centre, Mukhtar Ahmad told Kashmir Post that Srinagar had recorded the hottest day of the season so far on Sunday and this trend will continue for the next few days in the valley. “We are expecting dry weather to continue and there will be an increase of 2-3 degrees in temperatures…

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Kashmir farmers suffer as rivers illegally mined under supervision by the people at the helm

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Start of the apple season hampered by unabated mining of rivers, hitting thousands of farmers as government officials admit lapses. Ghulam Mohammad Mir, 62, looks grudgingly at the canal that usually brings water year-round to his and many other fruit orchards in Kashmir’s Shopian district, home to some of the finest apples grown in the lap of the Himalayas. Mir’s anger has a reason. The canal is dry these days, hampering the start of the apple season when farmers prepare the trees with minerals and fertilisers. “It is time to…

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J&K ties up with National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP) for flood forecast

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Jammu and Kashmir has joined hands with a UK-based space agency for a collaborative project on impact-based flood forecasting, an official spokesman said on Friday. The national space innovation programme (NSIP), undertaken by HR Wallingford in collaboration with Oxford University, Sayers & Partners (SPL) and D-Orbit, is an initiative that supports collaborative projects between UK-based organisations and international partners, he said. It is a big step taken by the Lt-Governor administration, which will help to predict fluvial flood risks in terms of expected loss to life, injuries to people, building…

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Zojila Tunnel: FO attached after more than 300 trees chopped without permission

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A day after Hyderabad-based major infrastructure company, Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Limited which is responsible for the construction of the 14.5-kilometre Zojila Tunnel, chopped down over 300 ‘trees’ without seeking permission from Forest Department, the Department attached Forest Officer Sonmarg to DFO’s office Ganderbal for not informing the higher-ups. Quoting sources, news agency KNT reported that the Forest Officer Sonmarg, Abdul Gani was attached to the office of Divisional Forest Officer Ganderbal while the additional charge was given to Forest Officer Gund Habibullah. Earlier on January 21, the company had…

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Kashmir Shivers as the temperature dips below zero degrees across the Valley

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Most of the Kashmir valley witnessed sub-zero temperatures on Wednesday night after the wet weather conditions improved and the sky cleared. The weather office said that the coldest place in the valley on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday was the ski resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir where the mercury plunged to -11 degrees Celsius, around five notches below normal. The tourist resort of Pahalgam in north Kashmir recorded -9 degrees Celsius while the temperature went to -6.5 degrees Celsius in Kokernag. “The summer capital Srinagar witnessed -2.1…

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Kashmir Valley braces for chilly winter, the Chillai-Kalan

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Although temperatures of Jammu and Kashmir starts dropping in the beginning of December, but the harshest winters commence by the third week of December and last until the end of January. The minimum temperatures of Jammu and Kashmir are already heading south. Anantnag, Banihal, Batote, Gulmarg, Kukernag, Kupwara and Qazigund are witnessing minimum temperatures in the range of -3 and -5 degree, Srinagar and Gulmarg are recording minimum temperature around -6 degrees. Most of the districts of Jammu and Kashmir are witnessing freezing morning and nights. The 40-day period of…

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Jammu records season’s chilliest day, Cold wave grips Kashmir & Ladakh

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Drass freezes at minus 24.6 degrees Celsius, Gulmarg shivers at minus 9, Srinagar-Leh Highway, Mughal Road closed for 6th day While a cold wave has gripped Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, Drass froze at minus 24.6 degrees Celsius on Sunday night, making it the coldest recorded temperature of the season in the region so far. As per Meteorological Department, Leh recorded minus 13.2 degrees and Kargil minus 11.8 degrees Celsius on Sunday night.The ski-resort Gulmarg in Baramulla also recorded the coldest night of the season so far at minus 9…

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Cold wave conditions to prevail across Jammu & Kashmir

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On Tuesday, plains in Kashmir received their first snowfall, three weeks after the high altitude regions. This week, parts of North India—in particular, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Jammu Kashmir—are likely to continue experiencing colder weather conditions. These regions are expected to witness isolated heavy rains, snow, and thunderstorms for the next two days, starting Tuesday. As per The Weather Channel met team, a western disturbance affects the Western Himalayan Region and the Trans-Himalayas with fairly widespread moderate snow or rain until Thursday. In addition, heavy snow up to 100 cm…

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