Temp hovers below freezing point in Kashmir Valley

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Leh was recorded as the coldest place in Jammu and Kashmir as the mercury plummeted to the season’s lowest of minus 13.2 degrees Celsius there, while the night temperature across the Valley also remained several notches below the freezing point.

The town in the Ladakh region was the coldest recorded place in the state while the nearby Kargil also shivered at a low of minus 9.4 degrees Celsius, which was the lowest night temperature the town has experienced so far this season, an official of the MET department said here.

Pahalgam health resort in south Kashmir which serves as a base camp for the annual Amarnath Yatra recorded a low minus 6.2 degrees Celsius, the official said, adding it was the coldest night of the season at the resort too.

The mercury at the famous ski-resort of Gulmarg, in north Kashmir, settled at a low of minus 4.8 degrees Celsius, he said.

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