Torrential downpour triggers flash floods in Dachan Kishtwar, Khrew Pulwama

Srinagar : While most parts of Jammu and Kashmir received moderate rainfall on Thursday, the torrential downpour in Kishtwar and Pulwama areas triggered flash floods, subsequently the fresh wet spell has brought relief from the heat wave across the Valley.
The Dachan area of Kishtwar and Khrew area of Pulwama have received torrential downpour today, which triggered the flash floods in these localities.
At some places, the rain water has entered into the shops and houses of people as well, causing huge inconvenience to them.
Moreover, the parts of Jammu and Kashmir received moderate rainfall since the intervening night of Wednesday-Thursday with Katra recorded the highest precipitation of nearly 79mm followed by Jammu with nearly 50 mm rainfall. The heavy rainfall was recorded up to 8:30 AM following which the weather conditions improved across the Jammu division.
Srinagar and Gulmarg were the only stations in Kashmir where heavy rainfall has been recorded with summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir recording a precipitation of 25.0 mm from 08:30 AM to 5:30 PM while Gulmarg has received 18.6 mm rainfall during the period.
Pahalgam and Kupwara stations have however recorded just 2.6 mm rainfall and 1.6 mm rainfall respectively since this morning while the rest of the stations have not received any rainfall.
Nonetheless, Jammu and Kashmir has recorded a deficient precipitation of 44 per cent since June 01 to July 31.