Srinagar, Jan 8 || With minus 5.1 degrees Celsius as the minimum temperature, Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar city recorded this season’s coldest night on Thursday.
Mukhtar Ahmed, director of the local Meteorological (MeT) Department, told, “At minus 5.1 degrees Celsius as the minimum temperature, Srinagar city recorded this season’s lowest minimum temperature today.”
Gulmarg recorded minus 9.2 degrees Celsius, and Pahalgam recorded minus 8.6 as the minimum temperature.
Jammu city had 7.1 degrees, Katra town 4.1, Batote 2.8, Banihal 3.7 and Bhaderwah minus 3.4 as the night’s lowest temperature
With the MeT Department forecasting cold, dry weather till January 20, the danger of drought in the coming months has caused worry among people in Kashmir.
The fear is accentuated by the fact that the 40-day-long period of harsh winter called the ‘Chillai Kalan’, which started on December 21, will end on January 30. It is only the heavy snowfall during this 40-day-long period that fills the perennial water reservoirs in the mountains.