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Cold Wave Grips Kashmir As Temperatures Hit Sub-Zero Levels

A cold wave continues to grip Kashmir as temperatures drop below zero degrees Celsius. As of Wednesday, Srinagar recorded a minimum temperature of minus 5.3 degrees Celsius. The sub-zero temperatures have also caused fringes of several water bodies including the Dal Lake to freeze.

| Photo: PTI/S Irfan

Tourists click photographs as they visit the frozen Drung waterfall, at Tangmarg in Baramulla district, North Kashmir. As cold wave intensifies in Kashmir Valley, temperature dropped several degrees below zero with Srinagar recording the minimum temperature at minus 5.3 degrees Celsius.

Cold wave in Kashmir valley: Frozen surface of water in the interior of Dal Lake
Cold wave in Kashmir valley: Frozen surface of water in the interior of Dal Lake | Photo: AP/Mukhtar Khan

People looks on near the frozen surface of a water in the interior of Dal Lake on a cold day in Srinagar.

Cold wave in Kashmir valley: A bird rests near a frozen surface of a water
Cold wave in Kashmir valley: A bird rests near a frozen surface of a water | Photo: AP/Mukhtar Khan

A bird rests near a frozen surface of a water in the interior of Dal Lake on a cold day in Srinagar.

Cold wave in Kashmir valley: Children watch from a wooden bridge over a frozen body of water.
Cold wave in Kashmir valley: Children watch from a wooden bridge over a frozen body of water. | Photo: AP/Mukhtar Khan

Children look on as they standing on a wooden bridge on the frozen surface of water in the interior of Dal Lake on a cold day in Srinagar.

Cold wave in Kashmir valley: Tourists visit a frozen waterfall at Drung
Cold wave in Kashmir valley: Tourists visit a frozen waterfall at Drung | Photo: PTI

Tourists visit a frozen waterfall at Drung area on a cold winter morning, in Baramulla district, Jammu and Kashmir.

Cold wave in Kashmir valley: Frozen waterfall at Drung area
Cold wave in Kashmir valley: Frozen waterfall at Drung area | Photo: PTI

Tourists visit a frozen waterfall at Drung area on a cold winter morning, in Baramulla district, Jammu and Kashmir.

Cold wave in Kashmir valley: A man uses an oar to cut through the thin layer of ice.
Cold wave in Kashmir valley: A man uses an oar to cut through the thin layer of ice. | Photo: PTI/S Irfan

A man cuts the thin layer of ice with an oar as he rows a boat through interior Dal Lake during a cold winter morning, in Srinagar.

Cold wave in Kashmir valley: Women navigate the partially frozen interior of Dal Lake in a boat.
Cold wave in Kashmir valley: Women navigate the partially frozen interior of Dal Lake in a boat. | Photo: PTI/S Irfan

Women row their boat through the partially frozen interior Dal Lake during a cold winter morning, in Srinagar.

Cold wave in Kashmir valley: Frozen Drung waterfall at Tangmarg
Cold wave in Kashmir valley: Frozen Drung waterfall at Tangmarg | Photo: PTI/S Irfan

Tourists visit the frozen Drung waterfall, at Tangmarg in Baramulla district, North Kashmir.

Cold wave in Kashmir valley: Kashmiri boat men sit near a bonfire
Cold wave in Kashmir valley: Kashmiri boat men sit near a bonfire | Photo: AP//Mukhtar Khan

Kashmiri boat men sit near a bonfire as they wait for customers on cold and foggy day at Dal Lake in Srinagar.

Cold wave in Kashmir valley: A Kashmiri boat man rows his boat on foggy day
Cold wave in Kashmir valley: A Kashmiri boat man rows his boat on foggy day | Photo: AP/Mukhtar Khan

A Kashmiri boat man rows his boat on cold and foggy day at Dal Lake in Srinagar.

Cold wave in Kashmir valley: Boatman rows his boat near the frozen surface of the water.
Cold wave in Kashmir valley: Boatman rows his boat near the frozen surface of the water. | Photo: AP/Mukhtar Khan

A Kashmiri boatman rows his boat near the frozen surface of a water in the interior of Dal Lake on a cold day in Srinagar.

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