Srinagar: Mercury in Drass, the second coldest inhabited place in the world, plunged 31 degrees below freezing point even as Kashmir continued to reel under intense cold wave conditions prevailing over the past two months, MET officials said on Monday. Drass in Kargil district registered a low of minus 31.4 degrees Celsius on Sunday night, an official of the MET department said.
The maximum temperature recorded in the remote area of Jammu and Kashmir was minus 12.5 degrees Celsius on Sunday, the official said. In Leh district, the mercury settled at a low of minus 15.9 degrees Celsius last night while the maximum temperature was nearly two degrees below freezing point on Sunday, he added. Kashmir Valley, meanwhile, continued to reel under the intense cold wave conditions.
