Heavy morning fog enveloped Jammu and Srinagar cities on Tuesday affecting normal life, including air, surface and even pedestrian movement in the twin cities.

Srinagar, Jan 10 : Heavy morning fog enveloped Jammu and Srinagar cities on Tuesday affecting normal life, including air, surface and even pedestrian movement in the twin cities.

Jammu and Kashmir is likely to receive rain and snow in the next 24 hours, the Meteorological (MeT) office said on Tuesday.

“Mainly cloudy sky with light rain/snow is likely during the next 24 hours,” an official of the MeT department said.

Srinagar had 1.8, Pahalgam minus 3.2 and Gulmarg minus 4.4 degrees Celsius as the minimum temperature.

In Ladakh region, Kargil had minus 9.4 and Leh minus 7.6 as the minimum temperature.

Jammu had 6.6, Katra 7.6, Batote 4.2, Banihal 0.8 and Bhaderwah 3 as the minimum temperature.

In the coming 24 hours, the temperature in Mumbai is expected to reach between 24 to 28 and 25 to 30 in 48 hours.
Informing further about it said:

“General Cloudy sky Withy light to moderate rain/thundershowers in city (Mumbai) and Suburbs. possibly of occassionally strong winds reaching 40-50 kmph & Partly cloudy sky With light to moderate rain / thundershowers in city and Suburbs”

Heavy rain lashed Mumbai and neighbouring areas this morning and the India Meteorological Department or IMD has predicted more showers in the city.

The weather department (IMD) has also issued an ‘orange alert’ for Raigad, Ratnagiri and Satara, predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places in the three districts.

The weather department’s Santacruz observatory in Mumbai, representative of suburbs, recorded 93.4 mm rainfall in the 24-hour period till 8.30 am on Tuesday, marking another spell of heavy downpour here in the current monsoon season.

The Colaba observatory, representative of the island city, recorded 59.2 mm rainfall during the same period, an IMD official said.

The IMD has predicted moderate showers in Mumbai today and high intensity rains in neighbouring Raigad.

The weather department issues four colour-coded predictions based on the prevailing weather systems. The green colour indicates no warning, yellow is to keep a watch, orange is to stay alert, while red means a warning and that action needs to be taken.