Srinagar recorded the coldest night of the season with the Night temperature going below the freezing point for the first time this season, with the mercury settling at minus 1.4 degree Celsius. While Kargil and Drass too are witnessing very cold November, water has started to freeze in the open areas where temperature has hit a low of minus 10.6 C in Leh today, the coldest night of the season.

Pahalgam, in south Kashmir, was the coldest place in Kashmir valley with a minimum temperature of minus 2.8 degrees Celsius.

The night temperatures in some other parts of the Valley also settled below freezing point with Kupwara registering the temperature at minus 1.7 degree Celsius and Qazigund minus 0.6 degree Celsius.

The ski-resort of Gulmarg registered the temperature at -1.2 degree Celsius, 0.2 degree down from the previous night.

Leh was the coldest recorded place in the Ladakh Union Territory with the mercury settling at a low of minus 10.6 degrees Celsius.

DRASS recorded a temperature of minus 8.4 degrees Celsius, as compared to the previous night’s minus 2.6 degrees Celsius and Kargil was reeling at minus 4.7 degree Celsius.

MET has forecast mainly dry weather across Kashmir division during the next 6 days and given the possibility of active western disturbances from 14th November which will bring rain and snow across Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh.