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I used to have a cabin in Pauri for about 15 years that I sold off in 2025. Earlier, I could see the Snow Peaks associated with all the four Dhaams (Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri, Yamnotri) from after the monsoons (Sept/Oct) till the start next year in mid/end June.
However, over the last five years, the Snow Peaks and the 150+ km wide Himalayan Snow Peaks started getting hidden from view, 2 weeks earlier, every year…
The above was clearly not due to “early monsoon clouds”…. but Pollution that rose from the hot “valley”, the home to the Alaknanda River, below.
In 2024, I went in mid March and did not see the Himalayan Peaks at all, till I returned to the “plains” to my home in Gurgaon in June that year.
This also happens to be the “Peaks Tourist Period” and the disappointed Tourists would not encourage others to go to Uttarakhand either.
Perhaps, IMD should start measuring these Pollution Effects (AQI, Opacity/Transparency of the Atmosphere, etc… ) too and not just look at the “traditional” Weather Data only, typically comprising Temperature, Rainfall, Humidity etc.. etc…
I used to have a cabin in Pauri for about 15 years that I sold off in 2025. Earlier, I could see the Snow Peaks associated with all the four Dhaams (Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri, Yamnotri) from after the monsoons (Sept/Oct) till the start next year in mid/end June.
However, over the last five years, the Snow Peaks and the 150+ km wide Himalayan Snow Peaks started getting hidden from view, 2 weeks earlier, every year…
The above was clearly not due to “early monsoon clouds”…. but Pollution that rose from the hot “valley”, the home to the Alaknanda River, below.
In 2024, I went in mid March and did not see the Himalayan Peaks at all, till I returned to the “plains” to my home in Gurgaon in June that year.
This also happens to be the “Peaks Tourist Period” and the disappointed Tourists would not encourage others to go to Uttarakhand either.
Perhaps, IMD should start measuring these Pollution Effects (AQI, Opacity/Transparency of the Atmosphere, etc… ) too and not just look at the “traditional” Weather Data only, typically comprising Temperature, Rainfall, Humidity etc.. etc…