Temperatures drop below freezing point in Kashmir
Chandigarh and Amritsar colder than the ‘Queen of Hills’ Shimla
Srinagar: minimum temperatures again dropped below the freezing point at most places in the Kashmir Valley on Sunday. Leh at minus 8.2ºc was the coldest in Jammu and Kashmir, oficials SAID.
“Due to clear night sky, the minimum temperatures have again dropped below the freezing point at most places in the Kashmir Valley. The weather is likely to remain mainly dry in the state during the next 24 hours,” a Met department OFICIAL SAID.
“The night’s lowest temperature was minus 0.2ºc in Srinagar city on Sunday. It was minus1.2 in Pahalgam and minus 3.6 in Gulmarg. Kargil recorded minus 4.6 as the minimum on Sunday,” said THE OFICIAL.
Jammu recorded 9.6ºc, Katra 9.7ºc, Batote 6.4, Bannihal 3.7 and Bhaderwah 4.5 as the lowest temperatures today, ACCORDING to THE OFICIAL.
Chandigarh and the Sikh holy city of Amritsar in Punjab were on Saturday colder than the “Queen of Hills” - Shimla.
Likewise, many places in the plains of north India like Ludhiana, Patiala and Hisar were colder than hilly tourist destinations Shimla and Dharamsala in HIM AC HAL PRADESH, THEM ET OF ICE HERE SAID.
Chandigarh, located in the Shivalik foothills, recorded a minimum temperature at 9ºc, while Shimla, located around 7,000 feet above sea level, saw a low of 10.6 degrees, a rise of four degrees from Friday, and Dharamsala 7ºc.
Punjab’s cities Amritsar and Ludhiana and Hissar in Haryana recorded a low of 6.8 degrees, 9.2 and 6.8ºc, respectively.
Delhi’ s minimum temperature settled at 8.6ºc − two notches lower than In SHIMLA.
Hill stations across Himachal Pradesh have been experiencing long hours of sunny weather for the past few days and the temperatures in most places have risen by three-four degrees above the season’s average.
The maximum temperature in Shimla is likely to hover around 18ºc.
Manmohan Singh, director of Shimla’s Meteorological OFICE, SAID that SHIMLA AND Dharamsala saw high night temperature compared to the plains.
“This is a normal phenomenon and occurs mainly due to settling of inversion layer on mountain tops,” he said.
Generally, the air becomes cooler as elevation increases. The day temperature in most of the plains is abnormally high compared to Shimla.
The warm air lifted from the plains overlaid the existing cold air in the mountains.
Singh said since s him la anddh ar ams ala were near the plains, the impact of inversion layer was more there.