Kashmir in grip of cold wave, Pulwama shivers at -5.5°C

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A presumption    of 'Zero Bridge' connected  a acold  foggy morning, successful  Srinagar connected  Thursday, December 12, 2025.

A presumption of 'Zero Bridge' connected a acold foggy morning, successful Srinagar connected Thursday, December 12, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI

The minimum somesthesia successful Kashmir remained beneath the freezing constituent arsenic acold conditions persisted crossed the valley, officials said connected Friday (December 12, 2025).

Srinagar, the summertime superior of Jammu and Kashmir, recorded a debased of -3.6°C connected Thursday (December 11, 2025) night, down from the erstwhile night's -2.9°C, the officials said.

They said the nighttime somesthesia was 2.4° beneath the mean for this clip of the season.

Qazigund successful southbound Kashmir recorded a debased of -2.8°C, portion the minimum successful northbound Kashmir's Kupwara settled astatine -3.6°C, and Kokernag successful southbound Kashmir registered a debased of -0.7°C.

Pahalgam, 1 of the basal camps for the Amarnath Yatra successful southbound Kashmir, recorded a debased of -4.6°C, they said.

The nighttime somesthesia astatine the celebrated skis edifice of Gulmarg, successful northbound Kashmir, settled astatine a debased of 0°C.

Pulwama, successful southbound Kashmir, was the coldest recorded spot successful Jammu and Kashmir astatine -5.5°C, portion the neighbouring Shopian registered a debased of -5°C, the officials said.

The prevailing adust upwind successful Kashmir vale has led to an summation successful ailments similar cough and communal cold.

The doctors person advised the people, particularly the children and elderly, to instrumentality precautions and enactment indoors.

The meteorological section has said determination is simply a anticipation of precise airy snowfall astatine isolated higher reaches of northbound and cardinal Kashmir from December 13 to 17.

It said portion the upwind is apt to stay partially to mostly cloudy connected December 18 and 19, determination is simply a anticipation of airy rain/snow astatine scattered places of the vale connected December 20-21 erstwhile 'Chillai Kalan', the 40-day harshest wintertime play sets in.

Shallow to mean fog is apt to persist astatine galore places successful the vale implicit the coming days, the MeT bureau added.

Published - December 12, 2025 11:22 americium IST

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