Srinagar: People in Srinagar, the summer capital of the state, woke up to the coldest morning of the season so far with minimum temperature plunging to minus 6.6 degrees Celsius, the lowest temperature recorded in prevailing winter.
The overnight temperature was four notches below the previous low of minus 6.2 deg Cel, witnessed on the first morning of the ‘chilaikalan’, the 40-day-long severest part of prevailing winter.
Even as the cold spell sweeping across the Valley has been setting new records this season, it was still far from registering or matching the coldest temperature ever in the Valley when mercury plunged to minus 14.4 Degrees Celsius on January 31, 1893.
The Metrological Office said the capital was also the second coldest place in the entire Kashmir region after Pahalgam and Gulmarg as both famous tourist destinations recorded a low of minus 7.0 degrees Celsius.
Qazigund and Kokernag areas in south Kashmir recorded minimum of minus 6.5 and minus 4.1 degrees Celsius respectively, the MeT office said.
Kupwara, the frontier northern Kashmir district, recorded a low of minus 5.4 degrees Celsius, the MeT said.
Leh and Kargil district of cold desert—Ladakh continued to freeze as temperatures continued to hover far below the sub-zero mark. While Leh recorded a minimum of minus 15.2 degrees Celsius, Kargil, the second inhabited area in the region, witnessed a low of 11.0 degrees Celsius.
The MeT office predicted that the dry weather would prevail in the Kashmir region in next twenty-four hours. However, people can look forward to some respite as a feeble western disturbance was strolling into the region on 30 to December 31.
“There is some chance of light rain or snowfall on the days,†the metrological official told Press Bureau of India.
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