Srinagar, Feb. 13 -- For the past two consecutive years, Jammu and Kashmir, particularly the Himalayan Valley, has witnessed largely dry winters with the amount of snowfall or rain not even crossing the half-way mark of the normal, the IMD data shared by the government in J&K Assembly said.

The large-scale deficit has triggered a rethink in the government to have a collaborative climate-resilient response across various departments for water conservation, crop diversification and better weather monitoring as IMD is planning to make a hyper-local forecasting system over the Himalayan states.

The data shared in the ongoing session of the assembly indicated that Jammu and Kashmir has received just 49.8% precipitation of the normal from Oct...