Kashmir Cold Wave 2025: Fresh Snowfall at Zojila, Winter Updates, Chillai-Kalan Outlook & Tourism Impact

Kashmir Cold Wave 2025: Fresh Snowfall at Zojila, Winter Updates, Chillai-Kalan Outlook & Tourism Impact

Fresh Snowfall at Zojila, Overcast Skies Bring Relief as the Valley Enters Deep Winter By: Javid Amin | 01 November 2025 Winter has firmly embraced the Kashmir Valley in 2025, bringing with it a complex blend of biting cold, fresh snowfall, shifting weather patterns, evolving tourism rhythms, and the annual anticipation of Chillai-Kalan, the harshest 40-day winter period. The season is intensifying rapidly — and the first major relief in weeks arrived with fresh snowfall at Zojila Pass and a widespread blanket of overcast skies, offering a temporary break from…

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Zojila, Z-Morh tunnels will boost adventure tourism: ATOAK

Kashmir-based Adventure Tour Operators Association or ATOAK has welcomed the union government decision to speed up the process for constructing Zojila tunnel on Srinagar-Kargil-Leh highway. President ATOAK Rauf Tramboo said the project is already too late. “The tunnel should have been there in mid 80s or even much earlier when adventure tourism started booming in the world and was all time high in Kashmir.” “Sind Valley including Sonamarg is a prime attraction for round the year adventure related activities but due to non availability of road connectivity in winters this…

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