"Rare and Heavy Late-May Snowfall hits Kashmir, India and Kaghan, Pakistan"

Source:

https://electroverse.net/rare-and-heavy-late-may-snowfall-hits-kashmir-india-and-kaghan-pakistan/

"While northern Russia’s anomalous warmth is dominating the mainstream media headlines, the intense cold-blasts and unusually fierce snow-dumps currently ravaging vast portions of the planet are of far greater concern.

Northern Russia is long overdue for some heat — the region is coming off the back of an exceptionally cold and prolonged winter where record-breaking lows (often in the -50C to -60C range) persisted from mid-December all the way through April.

As a result, researchers on the ground noted “an increase in periodic glaciation in the region.”

Russia’s pocket of warmth may have the obfuscating mainstream media ... but the ‘bigger picture,’ as always, paints a different story:

low solar activity is continuing to weaken the jet streams, and it is this setup, and this setup alone, that is responsible or the swings between extremes we’re currently seeing (i.e. the pushing of warm tropical air unusually-far north and the dragging of cold polar air unusually-far south).

Over the weekend, twenty-one runners tackling a mountain ultra-marathon in northwest China perished after freezing conditions hit the high-altitude race.

Rescuers were only able to save 151 out of a total of 172 participants.

According to the official Xinhua News Agency, the twenty-one died from “the sudden drop in temperature.”

The extreme freeze caught everyone off guard.

“I ran 2 kilometres before the starting gun fired to warm up,” said one competitor; “but the trouble was, after running these 2 kilometres, my body still had not heated up.”

On Sunday, central Kashmir received what thekashmirwalla.com called “rare summer snowfall” and “extreme cold weather conditions.“

Some of the heaviest accumulations were received in central Kashmir’s Sonamarg Resort.

... Nearby Minimarg also copped impressive flakes.

While the higher elevations received even larger totals.

... It also snowed across the peaks in and around ZojiLa yesterday, May 24, according to DD News Ladakh:

Snowfall in Kashmir is usually received during the core winter months, between December to February, continues the thekashmirwalla.com article — “snowfall in the last half of May is incredibly rare in the region.”

Crossing India’s northern border, and into Pakistan, flurries of heavy snowfall have also been reported.

According to dawn.com, the scenic Kaghan Valley was transformed into a winter wonderland on Sunday as extreme cold set it.

It started snowing at noon and continued throughout the entire day.

... Many mountain passes remain blanketed in winter snows.

“The Mansehra-Naran-Jalkhad Road has been cleared of snow up to Battakundi,” said Matiuallah; however, the remaining stretch up to Babusar Top is still being worked on, even as we approach the month of June."