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| Night temp dips | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 14: After a brief respite due to a cloudy sky, night in the Kashmir valley and Ladakh region again became cold with the minimum recorded between minus 3.6 and minus 28 degree Celsius this morning.
After minus 1.4 degree minimum yesterday, it was again minus 3.6 degree this morning, freezing taps in some areas in the summer capital, Srinagar.
The sky was clear during the night resulting in drop in the temperature, official sources said, adding that due to cloudy weather yesterday there was some improvement in the minimum temperature.
However, Pahalgam, the base camp of holy Amarnath cave in south Kashmir, was coldest in the valley after the minimum dipped to minus 6.2 degree. Taps, nullahs and other ponds have already frozen in the entire area.
Water level in the Lidder River and its tributaries has also decreased as snow on mountains had frozen due to the minus temperature.
Kupwara in north Kashmir recorded minus 3.5 degree minimum this morning followed by Qazigund on Srinagar-Jammu national highway with minus 2.6 degree.
There was no respite from the cold for the people in the Ladakh region, where both maximum and minimum temperature were below normal.
At Leh the minimum this morning was minus 20.4 degree while it was minus 21 degree in Kargil.
Official sources said Drass, the coldest place in the world after Siberia, and other higher reaches in the region recorded temperature between minus 22 degree to minus 28 degree this morning.
The authorities have already stopped supplying water to people in the region through taps since last month. However, people were being supplied water through tankers and some were using spring water which is hot during winter and cold in summer.
Braving all odds, including minus 25 to minus 40 degree temperature, security forces remained deployed on the Line of Control (LoC) to foil any infiltration attempt.
Before the Kargil war in 1999, security forces from both the sides of the LoC were withdrawing during winter and reoccupying their position in summer.
However, after the Kargil conflict, security forces from this side remained deployed on the border. Security forces were, however, being supplied special cloths and food to meet the challenge of the cold.
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