Severe Cold Wave Conditions Continue to Grip North India

New Delhi: Cold wave conditions continued unabated in several parts of north India today with Delhi recording the season’s lowest temperature and the IMD predicting some relief in the region from December 31 onwards.

The minimum temperature settled at 4.2 degrees Celsius in the national capital, three notches below normal.

Twenty-one trains were delayed for a maximum of six hours in the north due to the weather conditions.

In Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar recorded the coldest night of the season with the city freezing at minus 5.6 degrees Celsius, the regional MeT office said.

The minimum temperatures across Kashmir and Ladakh remained several degrees below the freezing point owing to a clear sky, a MeT department official said.

The ski-resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir recorded a low of minus 9.5 degrees Celsius last night — up from the previous night’s minus 11.2 degrees Celsius, he added.

The night temperature at Pahalgam, which also serves as one of the base camps for the annual Amarnath yatra in south Kashmir, witnessed a low of minus 12 degrees Celsius as against the minus 12.7 degrees on Thursday, the official said.

Pahalgam in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district was the coldest recorded place in the valley, he added.

Qazigund in south Kashmir recorded a low of minus 10.5 degrees Celsius, Kokernag town recorded a low of minus 7 degrees Celsius, while Kupwara in north Kashmir registered a minimum temperature of minus 6.3 degrees Celsius, the official said.