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Srinagar, Dec 20: Come Chillai-e-Kalan, cold wave intensified in Kashmir.

Srinagar recorded a temperature of minus 5.8°C on Monday. Mercury in Gulmarg settled at minus 5.5°C against minus 7.5°C on the previous night.

Qazigund recorded a temperature of minus 6.0°C. Pahalgam recorded minus 7.4°C against minus 8.7°C on the previous night. Kokernag recorded a minus 5.9°C against minus 6.0°C on the previous night

Kupwara town in north Kashmir recorded a temperature of minus 5.2°C against minus 6.1°C on the previous night.

Jammu recorded a temperature of 3.2°C.

Leh had recorded a temperature of minus 13.9°C against last night’s minus 16.0°C, while automatic Kargil recorded a minimum of minus 11.5°C. Drass, the second coldest place in the world after Siberia, recorded a low of minus 19.0°C.

A meteorological department official said that the mercury in the summer capital was two notches up from the previous two night’s minus 6.0°C. However, he said, overall it was below minus 4.3°C than the normal for this time of the year.

Srinagar, Dec 20: Come Chillai-e-Kalan, cold wave intensified in Kashmir.

Srinagar recorded a temperature of minus 5.8°C on Monday. Mercury in Gulmarg settled at minus 5.5°C against minus 7.5°C on the previous night.

Qazigund recorded a temperature of minus 6.0°C. Pahalgam recorded minus 7.4°C against minus 8.7°C on the previous night. Kokernag recorded a minus 5.9°C against minus 6.0°C on the previous night

Kupwara town in north Kashmir recorded a temperature of minus 5.2°C against minus 6.1°C on the previous night.

Jammu recorded a temperature of 3.2°C.

Leh had recorded a temperature of minus 13.9°C against last night’s minus 16.0°C, while automatic Kargil recorded a minimum of minus 11.5°C. Drass, the second coldest place in the world after Siberia, recorded a low of minus 19.0°C.

A meteorological department official said that the mercury in the summer capital was two notches up from the previous two night’s minus 6.0°C. However, he said, overall it was below minus 4.3°C than the normal for this time of the year.

The 40-day long ‘Chillai Kalan starts on December 21, it is followed by a 20-day long ‘Chillai Khurd’ and a 10-day-long ‘Chilla Bachha’.