MIRPUR: With the much-awaited rains in plain and snowfall on upper areas reaches, the dry spell that persisted in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) for over past several months ended since Saturday night as the mountainous Neelam valley received its first snowfall.
Mercury fell to a greater extent turning the weather more chilly in the scenic Neelam valley that received the heaviest snowfall since late Saturday. The inclement weather resulted in a dip in the day’s temperature. However, the night temperature fell to intolerable chillness in the upper reaches of the liberated territory.
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The persistent long dryness for the past several months caused seasonal diseases including allergy, flue and fever in different parts of the valley besides reducing the water level in rivers and dams to an alarming extent because of the lack of rains in the region as well.
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Various parts of AJK received first heaviest rainfall of the winter but of medium intensity in the plains besides the snowfall at the beautiful upper areas reached last night of Saturday.
Rain turns weather more chilly
In the snow-clad top mountainous Neelam and other areas, the residents were compelled to be confined into their houses to avert the negative impacts of the suddenly changed chilly weather on normal life.
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The metrological department has predicted the continuation of the rainfall in several plains and snowfall at the top mountainous areas of the AJK during the next twenty-four hours. The whole region has been passing through dry weather for last three to four months.
