September expected to be driest month for Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh

 

September is expected to be one of the driest months of the year for Jammu and Kashmir as well as Ladakh, with no significant precipitation predicted for the first two weeks of the month, the Meteorological Department has said. “September is climatologically the driest month of the year for J&K and Ladakh. No significant weather is expected for the next 2 weeks,” stated MeT Director Sonam Lotus in a recent update. This announcement comes in the wake of severe heat wave conditions that have persisted since the start of the summer season in Kashmir, with temperatures reaching as high as 34.6 degrees Celsius in Srinagar...

Source: Tehelka