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EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 14: Temperatures hovered above normal at many places in the Jammu and Kashmir even as upper reaches of the state reel below strong cold.
People in Jammu, Srinagar, Udhampur and Poonch had some hiatus as of the winter chill with minimum temperatures settling one to five degrees over normal at majority of places, the officials of metrology department said.
The minimum temperature in Jammu was recorded 9 degree Celsius, which is five notches over usual with the maximum of 23 degree Celsius, while the low in Srinagar was one, two degrees over usual and a maximum of 12 degree Celsius.
Leh was coldest place in the state registering a low of minus 13 degrees Celsius which was one notch above normal with the maximum of 0 degree Celsius.
The State summer capital Srinagar today witnessed another balmy day with the minimum temperature lingering over the 1 degree mark for the third consecutive day, even as a thin layer of fog engulfed the city in the morning with the maximum of 12 degree Celsius.
While in Poonch the temperature was recorded with the minimum of minus 1 degree Celsius and maximum 13 degree Celsius and in Udhampur District the temperature was noticed with the minimum of 6 degree Celsius and maximum of 22 degree Celsius.
The minimum temperature in Kargil was recorded at minus 5 degree, three notches over average, alongside with the maximum of 3 degrees Celsius.
Though, North-Westerly winds kept mercury one to two degree Celsius underneath average at the majority of places in the state where upper reaches including Gulmarg was the coldest place at minus 3 degrees with the maximum of 9 degree Celsius.
Meanwhile, fresh spell of snowfall in higher reaches of of the state today aggravated cold wave condition in the mount regions.
Leh recorded a squat of minus 13 degrees Celsius, three degree above the prior night, office said.
Kargil Township, also in the frosty desert of Ladakh, witnessed a minimum of minus 5 degree Celsius with the maximum of 3 degree Celsius.
Though, people of Kashmir had breathing space as of the strong cold wave which had engulfed the region subsequent snowfall in the higher reaches on the weekend
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