At -1.4° C, Srinagar sees season’s coldest night
Srinagar experienced this season’s coldest night so far as the mercury plunged to minus 1.4 degrees Celsius on Friday.
Freezing temperatures were recorded at all weather stations of the Valley, the meteorological department (MeT) said. MeT officials said Srinagar recorded the minimum temperature of minus 1.4 degrees Celsius on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, down from minus 0.8 degrees on the night before. “The mercury fell 1.5 degrees below normal in Srinagar during the night,” an official of MeT department said. Pahalgam in the south was the coldest place in the Valley with the night temperature of minus 3.6 degrees Celsius, while it was zero degree at the ski resort of Gumlarg in north Kashmir.
In Jammu, the mercury settled at 9.8°C while Banihal recorded a low of 5°C .
Drass freezes at -12.7°C
Ladakh’s Kargil witnessed a minimum temperature of minus 11.3°C while it was minus 8.8°C in Leh. Drass froze at minus 12.7°C.
In HP, hills warmer than plains at night
Despite the onset of winter, nights have been warmer at famous hill stations, including state capital Shimla, Dalhousie and Kufri, than the lower hills and plains in Himachal. Kufri, Dalhousie, Dharamshala , Shimla, and Palampur recorded a minimum temperature of 10.5°C, 10.3°C, 9.2°C, 8.6°C, and 7°C, against cities in the lower hills such as Solan, Sundernagar, Barthin, Bilaspur, Hamirpur and Mandi.