Cold aggravates in north, mercury drops to sub-zero in Kashmir

Cold conditions aggravated in several parts of north India today with mercury in the entire Kashmir division dropping to sub-zero level.
Delhiites woke up to a cold morning with shallow fog in the air. The minimum temperature in the capital was recorded at 9.8 degrees Celsius, which was three notches below normal for this part of the season, and the maximum stood at 27.2 degrees Celsius.
According to the MeT office, humidity in the air oscillated between 88 and 34 per cent.
The entire Kashmir division, including Ladakh region, experienced sub-zero minimum temperature, even as Srinagar, the summer capital of the state, registered the coldest night of the season at minus 1.2 degrees Celsius.

Srinagar registered a drop of almost one degree in night temperature as the city recorded a low of minus 1.2 degrees Celsius, the lowest so far this season, a MeT department official said in Srinagar.
He said there was a drop of about one degree in the night temperatures in south Kashmir's Qazigund and Kokernag towns as the mercury settled at a low of minus 2.6 and minus 1.2 degree Celsius, respectively.

The tourist resort of Pahalgam, the base camp of annual Amarnath Yatra, recorded a minimum of minus 3.5 degrees, while Gulmarg the famous ski-resort in north Kashmir registered a low of minus 1.5 degrees Celsius, the official said.

He said the mercury in Kupwara town in north settled at a low of minus 1.2 degrees Celsius.
The frontier town of Leh, in Ladakh region, was the coldest recorded place in the state as the night temperature registered a low of minus 10.3 degrees Celsius, the official said, adding mercury settled at a minimum of minus 9.8 degrees Celsius in Kargil town.