It’s minus 30, at world’s second coldest inhabited place

The temperature fell to an unbelievable low on the 24th of January 2007, at the Drass town in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. Also known to be the second inhabited place in the world next to Siberia recorded a temperature of minus 30 degrees. The regional capital was not better off warm as it recorded a temperature of minus 20 degrees. Even in the Kashmir valley people woke up to a freezing day wich the mercury showing its reading at 5.8 degrees Celsius at the states summer capital.

TK Jotshi, assistant director of the meteorological department in Srinagar, told IANS: “The minimum temperature recorded today was minus 5.8 degrees Celsius. A cold wave is continuing to sweep across north India. But we expect the night temperatures to rise, bringing some relief to the residents.”