{"id":84583,"date":"2024-12-22T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T18:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=84583"},"modified":"2024-12-22T00:00:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T18:30:37","slug":"38-year-old-record-tumbles-as-srinagar-records-2nd-coldest-december-night-ever-at-8-5c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/38-year-old-record-tumbles-as-srinagar-records-2nd-coldest-december-night-ever-at-8-5c\/","title":{"rendered":"38-Year-Old Record Tumbles As Srinagar Records 2nd Coldest December Night Ever At -8.5\u00b0C"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Chillai-Kalan\u2019 Begins On Freezing Note In Kashmir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Srinagar, Dec 21 (GNS): Mercury plummeted to -8.5\u00b0C in Srinagar, the season\u2019s coldest night and the second lowest ever minimum temperature in the summer capital, as Chillai-Kalan\u2019, the 40-day harsh period of winter, started on Saturday.<\/p>\n

A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar recorded a drop in temperature by 2.3\u00b0C than last night\u2019s 6.2\u00b0C which was the previous lowest this season.<\/p>\n

According to the records, the previous lowest in 38 years was recorded on 31 December 1986 when mercury plunged to -7.9\u00b0C, the MeT official said. The lowest ever temperature was endured on 13 December 1934 when mercury plummeted to -12.8\u00b0C, he told Global News Service. In the last decade, Srinagar recorded the previous lowest on 28 December 2018 when mercury plunged to -7.7\u00b0C. Kashmir Valley is witnessing one of the worst winters.<\/p>\n

Qazigund recorded a minimum of minus 8.2\u00b0C against minus 7.6\u00b0C on the previous night, he said. Pahalgam recorded a low of minus 8.6\u00b0C against minus 8.2\u00b0C on the previous night.<\/p>\n

Kokernag, also in south Kashmir, recorded a minimum of minus 5.8\u00b0C against minus 5.8\u00b0C on the previous night<\/p>\n

Kupwara town in north Kashmir recorded a low of minus 7.2\u00b0C against minus 6.5\u00b0C on the previous night, the official said.<\/p>\n

Gulmarg, the official said, recorded a low of minus 6.2\u00b0C against minus 6.0\u00b0C on the previous night.<\/p>\n

Jammu, he said, recorded a minimum of 5.4\u00b0C, same as on the previous night, and it was below normal by 2.0\u00b0C for the winter capital of J&K.<\/p>\n

Banihal recorded a low of minus 1.8\u00b0C, Batote 1.6\u00b0C and Bhaderwah minus 0.4\u00b0C, he said.<\/p>\n

\u2018Chillai-Kalan\u2019, the 40-day harsh period of winter, started today and it will end on January 29. However it does not mean an end to the winter. It is followed by a 20-day-long period called \u2018Chillai-Khurd\u2019 that occurs between January 30 and February 19 and a 10-day-long period \u2018Chillai-Bachha\u2019 (baby cold) which is from February 20 to March 1. (GNS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Chillai-Kalan’ Begins On Freezing Note In Kashmir Srinagar, Dec 21 (GNS): Mercury plummeted to -8.5°C in Srinagar, the season’s coldest night and the second lowest ever minimum temperature in the summer capital, as Chillai-Kalan’, the 40-day harsh period of winter, started on Saturday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar recorded a drop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84585,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84583\/revisions\/84585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}