Srinagar, Dec. 18 -- The prolonged dry spell is expected to break in Jammu and Kashmir with possibility of snowfall from December 20-21 coinciding with the beginning of Chillai Kalan, the harshest period of winter in Kashmir valley.

Following a long dry spell largely continuing for the past six weeks, the meteorological centre in Srinagar said that the weather is expected to take a wet turn from the night of December 20 owing to the arrival of a western disturbance.

"The weather is expected to be generally cloudy with possibility of light to moderate snow over higher reaches of Kashmir division and light rain at many places (plains) of J&K towards late-night of December 20 to the evening of December 21," the director of MeT, J&K, Mukhta...