Mercury dipped further in most parts of north India on Friday with Leh region in Jammu and Kashmir recording the season’s lowest at minus 16.2°C.
Mercury dipped further in most parts of north India on Friday with Leh region in Jammu and Kashmir recording the season’s lowest at minus 16.2°C.
Delhiites woke up to a chilly Christmas morning with the minimum temperature settling at 5.5°C, two notches below normal for this time of the season.
A few areas in the city witnessed shallow fog with the visibility being recorded at 1,000 metres.“The minimum temperature recorded at 8.30 am was 5.5°C. The humidity was 83 per cent,” a MeT department official said.
In Jammu and Kahsmir, the cold wave tightened its grip in the state as the minimum temperature at most places continued its downward spiral. The summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir recorded a low of -5.2°C, a drop of over a degree from the previous night’s -4°C, according to a spokesman of the MeT Department.
The bone-chilling cold led to freezing of water taps and fringes of many water bodies including the famous Dal Lake here. The night temperature in Leh, in the frontier Ladakh region, went down by over three notches from the previous night’s -12.9°C to settle at -16.2°C. Leh was the coldest recorded place in the state.
