Several famous tourist resorts and upper reaches in Kashmir experienced fresh snowfall on Tuesday while the plains were lashed with rains.

A MeT official said Gulmarg, Pahalgam Sonamarg, Aru Valley, Chandanwari and Kokernag were among the places that received snowfall.
Officials said the Zojila pass along the Srinagar-Leh National Highway recorded six inches of snowfall.
The Peer Ki Gali along the Mughal road, connecting the twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri in Jammu with south Kashmir’s Shopian district and the Sinthan top in Kishtwar district witnessed three to four inches of snowfall.
Reports of snowfall were also received from the upper reaches of Doda, Ramban, Kishtwar, Kathua, Rajouri and Poonch districts in the Jammu region.
The Meteorological Department had forecast light to moderate rain, with light snowfall in the higher reaches, till Tuesday afternoon.
The mercury dipped below the freezing point for the first time this season at the tourist resort of Gulmarg.
According to the Meteorological Centre Srinagar, the famous ski resort Gulmarg in Baramulla district recorded a minimum temperature of minus 0.4 degree celsius and received 37.4 mm of rainfall in the last 24 hours.
The hill resort of Pahalgam in south Kashmir recorded a minimum temperature of 0.6 degree celsius, 4.5 degree celsius below normal, and received 52.6 mm of rainfall with a snow depth of 3 cm.
Kupwara in north Kashmir registered 22.7 mm of rainfall with a minimum temperature of 6 degree celsius.
In Srinagar, the night temperature settled at 7.1 degree celsius, 1.9 degree celsius below normal, as it received 24.9 mm of rain in the past 24 hours.
Qazigund in south Kashmir recorded the highest rainfall in the Valley during the past 24 hours, receiving 70.4 mm of precipitation, while the minimum temperature settled at 4.3 degree celsius.
Meanwhile, traffic on Jammu-Srinagar and Srinagar-Leh national highways along with Mughal and Sinthan top roads was suspended on Tuesday following multiple landslides triggered by heavy rain and snow accumulation in the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
A traffic department official said 270-km Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, was closed for vehicular movement on Tuesday morning due to landslides and shooting of stones at multiple locations between Udhampur and Banihal.
Road clearance agencies were mobilised to make the road trafficable as soon as possible, the official said.
The traffic on the highway is plying alternatively from the twin capitals of Srinagar and Jammu in view of the ongoing repair work after the arterial road suffered heavy damage following record rainfall in August-September.
The Srinagar-Leh National Highway along with Mughal and Sinthan roads that provide alternative connectivity between Kashmir and the rest of the country are also closed due to snow accumulation, the spokesman said.