‘Chillai-Kalan’ 40-days harsh period of winter begins in Kashmir

Chilai Kalan begins with coldest night in 6 years ‘Chillai-Kalan’ – the harshest 40-day period of winter in Kashmir – marked its beginning Wednesday with mercury dipping to the season’s record low at several places including Srinagar which experienced a six-year-low night temperature in the month of December. Kashmir Valley and Ladakh region have been it by severe cold as the night temperature across the division, except Pahalgam and Gulmarg, dropped to the season’s lowest, an official of the MET Department here said. He said the mercury in Srinagar plunged…

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