{"id":8063,"date":"2016-12-15T11:23:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T05:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=8063"},"modified":"2016-12-15T11:23:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T05:53:30","slug":"kashmir-valley-readies-chillai-kalan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=8063","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir Valley readies for ‘Chillai Kalan’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Srinagar:<\/strong> The Kashmir Valley readies for the 40-day long ‘Chillai Kalan’ as night temperatures dropped below freezing point on Thursday in the valley with a cold wave prevailing throughout.<\/em><\/p>\n

An official of the MET department told IANS: “Cold, dry weather with foggy conditions in the morning is expected in Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours (till Friday).”<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Night temperatures throughout the Kashmir Valley remained below freezing point and the minimum temperatures dropped several notches below zero in the Ladakh region,” he added.<\/em><\/p>\n

The night temperatures were minus 0.4 in Srinagar, minus 4.3 in Pahalgam and minus 3.6 in Gulmarg.<\/em><\/p>\n

Leh recorded the lowest night temperature in the state at minus 11.9 degrees Celsius followed by Kargil at minus 9.4.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jammu city was at 7.4 while Katra recorded 9.0, Batote 6.2, Bannihal 7.5 and Bhaderwah 2.1 as their night temperatures.<\/em><\/p>\n

The 40-day long period of bitter cold known as ‘Chillai Kalan’ starts on December 21 in the Kashmir Valley.<\/em><\/p>\n

During this period of extreme cold even the maximum temperature during the day rarely touches 10 degrees.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

All lakes and other water bodies remain frozen during the ‘Chillai Kalan’ and long icicles hang from rooftops.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kashmiris use traditional fire-pots called ‘kangris’ under long tweed over-garments called the ‘pherans’ to keep them warm.<\/em><\/p>\n

All perennial water reservoirs of Kashmir are sustained and replenished by the snowfall during the ‘Chillai Kalan’.<\/em><\/p>\n

A dry ‘Chillai Kalan’ spells disaster for the valley.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Srinagar: The Kashmir Valley readies for the 40-day long ‘Chillai Kalan’ as night temperatures dropped below freezing point on Thursday in the valley with a cold wave prevailing throughout. An official of the MET department told IANS: “Cold, dry weather with foggy conditions in the morning is expected in Jammu and Kashmir during the next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063","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=8063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}