JAMMU, March 5 -- A creeping anxiety has taken hold among farming communities across Jammu province as the Meteorological Department warns of a sharp rise in temperatures over the coming days, compounding the distress caused by nearly two months of near-total rainfall absence that has left the region parched and its agriculture deeply vulnerable.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday issued a forecast predicting a significant spike in daytime temperatures across Jammu and Kashmir over the next 48 hours, with atmospheric conditions turning increasingly favourable for a heat spell.
Officials at the MeT Centre in Srinagar confirmed that largely dry weather would grip the Union Territory in the days ahead, pushing mercury leve...