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| Night temperature improves, cloudy sky in Kashmir during day | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 24 : The night temperature has improved considerably while the maximum dipped due to cloudy sky and fresh Western Disturbances (WD) in the Kashmir valley. After recording the coldest night of the winter so far yesterday, people in the Kashmir valley and Ladakh region witnessed improvement in the minimum temperature. A Met department spokesman said a fresh though feeble WD, originating in Arabian Sea, is likely to affect Northern sector of Jammu and Kashmir from today onwards. The border town of Drass, second coldest place in the world after Siberia, remained coldest in the region as minimum was recorded at minus 23 degrees. However, it was three notches up against yesterday. Kargil, another border town on the Srinagar-Leh highway, closed for winter due to snowfall at Zojila, was the second coldest with minus 10 degrees minimum temperature. The town also witnessed the coldest day of the season yesterday when the maximum also dropped to minus 4 degrees. There was also considerable improvement in the night temperature in the Kashmir valley, where the sun was playing hide and seek today. In the summer capital, Srinagar there was considerable improvement in the night temperature after people experienced the coldest night of the season yesterday when the minimum dropped to minus 4 degrees, freezing taps and water bodies. Today it was 1.2 degrees, three degrees above normal, the Met spokesman said. He said the sky will remain partly cloudy with haze tomorrow in Srinagar. The worldfamous ski resort of Gulmarg recorded minus 5.2 degrees about a notch above normal while at Pahalgam, base camp of the holy Amarnath cave, recorded minus 2 degrees minimum temperature, three degrees above normal. Elsewhere in the valley, the minimum has improved against yesterday. |
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