While another feeble Western Disturbance is hitting J&K on Saturday evening, the freezing night temperature continued unabated and stayed several degrees Celsius below normal in Kashmir with Gulmarg recording a low of minus 10 degrees Celsius and Pahalgam minus 9.5 degrees Celsius on Friday.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials said that a fresh Western Disturbance was likely to affect the Western Himalayan region from Saturday night.
They said that the disturbance was essentially low-pressure systems that originate over the Mediterranean Sea and move eastwards while gathering moisture, which then gets dumped over North India.
Under the influence of this system, the IMD officials said there were likely chances of scattered rainfall and snowfall of light to moderate intensity over the Western Himalayan territories of Jammu and Kashmir.
