SRINAGAR: With the mercury dipping further, the summer capital Srinagar recorded the lowest temperature of the season at -5.4 degrees Celsius on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday.
The winter vacations up to Class 5 commenced from Tuesday, while for remaining classes 6 to 12, the holidays will start from December 16.
"All teachers shall remain available as required for any online guidance to students during the vacation," said an order issued by principal secretary school education Suresh Kumar, last week.
The teaching staffs of government high and higher secondary schools have also been asked to remain available from February 10 at respective headquarters for arrangements of board examinations of classes 10, 11, and 12.
Meanwhile, the cold strengthened its grip over the union territory with below normal sub-zero temperatures across the Kashmir valley.
The hill resorts of Gulmarg in south Kashmir and Pahalgam in north Kashmir were the coldest at -9 and -8.4 degrees Celsius respectively.
Director meteorological centre in Srinagar Mukhtar Ahmad said that cold wave like conditions will prevail across J&K mostly till December 20.
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