NEW DELHI: Cold conditions continued to sweep north India with Kargil shivering at minus 9.6 degree Celsius, while dense fog led to cancellation of at least 19 trains in the region today.
Northwestern plains, including Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and West Uttar Pradesh, were covered under dense fog this morning.
The fog played spoilsport for the railways in north India. A Northern Railway spokesperson said besides 19 trains being cancelled, 26 arrived late in Delhi, while seven others had to be re-scheduled.
In Delhi, the minimum temperature settled at 7C.
“The maximum and minimum temperatures are expected to hover at 23 and 7 degrees respectively,” the weatherman said.
In Kashmir divison, including the Ladakh region, the night temperature again dipped and stayed below the freezing point at all stations, a MET department official in Srinagar said.
Kashmir is currently under the grip of ‘Chillai-Kalan’ – a 40-day harshest period of winter, when the possibility of snowfall is maximum and the temperature drops considerably.
Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, recorded a minimum temperature of minus 2.7C last night – a decrease of over three degrees from the 0.7C the previous night. (AGENCIES)
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