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| Cold intensifies, Ladakh records minus 17 degree | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, NOV 20: Cold wave conditions intensified in the Kashmir valley and Ladakh region with minimum temperature dipping to all time low during this winter.
Summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir Srinagar recorded coldest night after the minimum temperature dipped to minus 3 degree Celsius this morning. This is three degree below normal.
However, world famous tourist resort of Pahalgam, the base camp for holy Amarnath cave in south Kashmir, turned out to be coldest in the valley where minimum temperature plunged to minus 6.1 degree this morning.
Kupwara in north Kashmir recorded minus 4.5 degree resulting in freezing cold.
A number of small streams and nullahs were frozen in Pahalgam and Kupwara’s upper reaches due to severe cold. However, as the day progressed, the frozen water melted after sun came out.
At Qazigund on Srinagar-Jammu national highway, people felt the cold conditions after the minimum temperature dipped to minus 3.3 degree followed by minus 2.4 at Kokernag.
However, people in Ladakh region continued to shiver due to severe cold as maximum and minimum temperature fell several degree below normal.
Leh recorded minus 16.8 degree this morning, forcing people to take extra measures to meet the cold wave conditions. However, it was minus 18 to minus 25 in the upper reaches, including areas bordering China and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Kargil also witnessed coldest night of the season after the minimum temperature was recorded at minus 12 degree. The night temperature through the upper reaches was minus 15 to minus 20 degree.
However, despite all odds and severe cold, troops remained deployed on the Line of Control (LoC) to foil any attempt by militants to sneak into this side from PoK.
People at Drass, world's second coldest place after Siberia, continued to shiver after the minimum temperature dipped to minus 18 degree.
Official sources said minimum temperature will drop further during the next 24 hours in the absence of western disturbances which originate from Arabian Sea and enter the region through Afghanistan and Pakistan.
As the sky remained clear during the night, the minimum temperature will drop, they said. However, due to clear weather, the day temperature was near normal during the past few days. --
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