{"id":19868,"date":"2019-12-19T10:37:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T05:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=19868"},"modified":"2019-12-19T10:37:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T05:07:41","slug":"at-27-7-c-drass-sees-years-coldest-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=19868","title":{"rendered":"At -27.7 \u00b0C, Drass sees year\u2019s coldest night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Jammu:<\/em><\/strong><em> Drass, India\u2019s coldest inhabited place in Kargil district of Ladakh Union Territory (UT), has recorded this winter\u2019s lowest temperature so far.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The minimum temperature plummeted to -27.7\u00b0C while maximum temperature was recorded at -13\u00b0C. Drass, the second coldest place after Siberia (Russia) on earth is witnessing daily drop in temperature as December is progressing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Leh shivers at -18\u00b0C<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The minimum temperature plummeted to -27.7\u00b0C while maximum temperature was recorded at -13\u00b0C. Drass, the second coldest place after Siberia (Russia) on earth is witnessing daily drop in temperature as December is progressing.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>As per the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Ladakh UT is facing cold wave conditions and temperature is likely to dip further. In Leh, the minimum temperature was recorded at -18\u00b0C while the maximum temperature was recorded at 0\u00b0C.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>As per the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Ladakh is facing cold wave conditions and temperature is likely to dip further. In Leh, minimum temperature was recorded at -18\u00b0C while maximum temperature was recorded at 0\u00b0C.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The inhospitable place of India is very strategic town along the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan and its nearly 15,000 residents have been living in the area for centuries. Adapted to the harsh climate but the residents are mostly deprived of modern amenities, especially during winter months. Successive government\u2019s in erstwhile J&amp;K had also failed to resolve even basic issues of the people. Power supply is also erratic during the winters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When contacted, Director IMD, Srinagar, Dr Sonum Lotus said, \u201cIt is likely to plummet further till mid January next year but -27.7 degrees was lowest so far recorded by our station. Overall cold conditions will intensify further\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lowest recorded temperature in the area was witnessed at -60\u00b0C on January 9, 1995.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA majority of the people face lot of hardships as there is very poor health infrastructure. -30 to -35\u00b0C is common during the winters. The area needs focused development\u201d, said Shazeya from Drass who is studying in Jammu.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For about seven months many hamlets in sparsely inhabited region remain cut off from rest of the world with the administration making stocking of fuel, food grains during the brief summer months.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu: Drass, India\u2019s coldest inhabited place in Kargil district of Ladakh Union Territory (UT), has recorded this winter\u2019s lowest temperature so far. The minimum temperature plummeted to -27.7\u00b0C while maximum temperature was recorded at -13\u00b0C. Drass, the second coldest place after Siberia (Russia) on earth is witnessing daily drop in temperature as December is progressing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}