Kargil coldest Place in J&K

Leh in Ladakh recorded the minimum temperature at minus 7 degrees as compared to yesterday’s minus 3.8 degrees.
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Feb. 17, 2011 - PRLog -- Kargil in frontier region of Ladakh was the coldest place in Jammu and Kashmir today after the night temperature plummeted by six notches and settled at minus 14.5 degrees Celsius. The plains, including the summer capital Srinagar, witnessed an upward trend in the mercury due to heavy cloud cover, a spokesman for the MET office said.

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The famous ski resort of Gulmarg, which received over 4.5 feet of snow between February 13 and 15, continued to be the coldest place in the Valley with a low of minus 10.8 degrees. The temperature was the same as recorded the previous night, the spokesman said.

He said Leh in Ladakh recorded the minimum temperature at minus 7 degrees as compared to yesterday’s minus 3.8 degrees.

However, the night temperature showed appreciable improvement in the plains, including Srinagar where the mercury settled at 1.9 degrees.

Srinagar recorded a low of minus 0.6 degree the previous night. The high altitude areas experienced the season’s heaviest snowfall, while the plains were lashed by incessant rains coupled with intermittent snowfall under the influence of the Western Disturbance.

The highway town of Qazigund, gateway to Kashmir, recorded a low of 1.4 degrees followed by Kokernag (0.8 degree) and Kupwara (0.5 degree), the spokesman said.

The famous hill resort of Pahalgam in south Kashmir, which serves as a base camp for annual Amarnath yatra, recorded a low of minus 4.4 degrees as against yesterday’s minus 5.4 degrees, he said.

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Official sources said a light snowfall occurred in the high altitude areas of the Valley last night after a daylong break.

The high altitude areas of the Valley has been recording heavy snowfall ranging between four feet and 10 feet since February 13, the sources said.
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The weathermen had already forecast wet weather in the region till tomorrow.

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