Severe cold conditions continued in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Saturday as Srinagar had coldest night of the season with mercury plunging to minus 3.6°C.
A meteorological department official told that the minimum temperature in Srinagar, the summer capital of J&K, was more than two degrees Celsius than the normal for this time of the year. Today’s minimum temperature surpassed that of yesterday (December 10) when the mercury fell to minus 2.6°C.
Gulmarg, the world famous skiing resort in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, witnessed a minimum of minus 5.5°C against minus 6.0°C on the previous night, the official said.
Jammu, the J&K’s winter capital saw a low of 6.7°C which is three degrees Celsius below normal, they said.
Ladakh’s Leh recorded a low of minus 12.1°C against last night’s minus 11.0°C while Kargil station had minimum of minus 10.6°C. Drass in Kargil, the second coldest place in the world after Siberia, recorded a low of minus 18.0°C, the official added.
Weatherman has forecast mainly dry till December 14.
