India, April 1 -- Mushtaq Ahmad Shah is witnessing the disappearance of winter. In Kashmir, says the 64-year-old resident of Srinagar, winter is defined by snow. This winter brought little of it across much of the Kashmir Valley. It has been one of Kashmir's hottest and also the driest winters in recent past. Faizan Arif, an independent weather analyst, says February was the warmest on record at several monitoring stations across the valley. In Srinagar the average maximum temperature reached 15.6degC, surpassing the previous February high of 14.9degC set in 2016. In the first week of March, temperatures in Gulmarg, famous for skiing and one of coldest places in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, rose to 17.2degC, nearly 13.7degC a...