New Delhi: Northern India was fully in the grip of cold weather conditions yesterday with widespread snowfall in the hilly areas even as the winter claimed its first casualties in Jammu and Kashmir where two teenaged girls lost their lives after being trapped beneath an avalanche.
Delhi woke up for a second day to cloudy skies and hazy weather with chilly winds bringing down the mercury in the national capital.
The maximum temperature dropped four notches below normal to 17.4 degrees Celsius, but the minimum was recorded four notches above normal at 12.0 degrees.
The city reported high humidity levels of between 98 and 88 per cent.
The weatherman has predicted clear skies tomorrow although fog is expected in the morning.
Further north, in J-K, two teenaged girls were killed today after being buried alive under a mound of snow when an avalanche struck in the Gurez area in north Kashmir's Bandipora district, police said.
