Srinagar: Poor visibility and light snowfall on Wednesday forced cancellation of three flights to and from the Srinagar International Airport, an official said.
“No flight has so far landed at the airport today. All other flights scheduled for today have been rescheduled,” the airport official said.
Srinagar-Leh, Mumbai-Srinagar and Srinagar-Delhi are the three flights cancelled so far due to poor visibility and runway conditions.
“We expect visibility to improve in the afternoon. Flight operations will be started as soon as the weather improves,” he added.
On Tuesday also, flight operation was disrupted at the Srinagar airport due to bad weather.
Meanwhile, minimum temperatures throughout the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh region remained below freezing point on Wednesday as the ski resort of Gulmarg recorded the coldest temperature at minus 9.8.
The weather office has forecast rain in the plains and snowfall in the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir till Thursday.
Leh recorded a minimum temperature of minus 6.5 and Kargil was at minus 5.8 degrees Celsius.
Srinagar was at minus 0.7, Pahalgam at minus 2.1, Jammu recorded 8.8, Katra 8.2, Batote 1.1, Bannihal 0.6, Bhaderwah 0.4 and Udhampur was at 8.0 degrees Celsius, the Met said.