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Cold question conditions successful Kashmir intensified arsenic minimum somesthesia settled respective degrees beneath freezing point, officials said connected Sunday (January 11, 2026).
The sub-zero somesthesia and wide skies resulted successful the freezing of parts of the Dal Lake and different h2o bodies.
Srinagar recorded a minimum somesthesia of minus 5.2 degrees Celsius connected Saturday (January 10, 2026) night, flimsy up from the erstwhile night's minus 5.7 degrees Celsius.
A boatman displays crystal sheets of partially frozen waters of Dal Lake connected a acold wintertime greeting successful Srinagar, connected Saturday, connected January 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: IMRAN NISSAR
The summertime superior of Jammu and Kashmir had recorded its coldest nighttime this play connected Thursday erstwhile the minimum somesthesia dipped to minus 6 degrees Celsius.
South Kashmir Shopian municipality was the coldest spot crossed the valley, arsenic the minimum somesthesia settled astatine minus 8.6 degrees Celsius. Pahalgam tourer resort, which besides serves arsenic 1 of the basal camps for the yearly Amarnath yatra, registered a debased of minus 7.6 degrees Celsius.
The nighttime somesthesia successful the fashionable skis edifice of Gulmarg successful northbound Kashmir's Baramulla territory settled astatine a debased of minus 6.2 degrees Celsius, up from the erstwhile night's minus 6.8 degrees Celsius, they said.
The tourer edifice of Sonamarg successful cardinal Kashmir's Ganderbal territory recorded a minimum somesthesia of 4.3 degrees Celsius.
Qazigund, the gateway municipality of the valley, registered a debased of minus 5.8 degrees Celsius, the season's coldest, officials said. Kokernag recorded a debased of minus 3.4 degrees Celsius, and Kupwara minus 5.6 degrees Celsius, they added.
‘Chilla-i-Kalan’
Kashmir is presently successful the midst of 'Chilla-i-Kalan', 40 days of utmost cold, during which nighttime temperatures often driblet respective degrees beneath the freezing point, and the chances of snowfall are the highest.
'Chilla-i-Kalan', which began connected December 21 past year, ends connected January 30.
The plains of the vale person not received immoderate snowfall truthful acold this season.
The India Meteorological Department has said the upwind is apt to stay adust but cloudy till January 21.
Boys bask adjacent the immense icicles formed by h2o leaking from a damaged tube successful the colony of Gogaldara Baramulla territory successful northbound Kashmir connected Thursday, 08, January 2026. | Photo Credit: IMRAN NISSAR
