Srinagar, Jan. 6 -- Gulmarg recorded season's coldest night of the season -8.8degC as the mercury flipped nearly nine degrees below freezing point, officials said here on Monday. The day temperature in Gulmarg was recorded at 1 degree Celsius. Albeit plains across Kashmir are yet to receive snowfall, however tourist resorts Gulmarg and Sonmarg have received back to back snowfall in the last 10 days which has attracted a large number of tourists. In Srinagar, the minimum temperature dipped slightly to -3.6 degrees Celsius on Sunday night, compared to -3.2degC on Saturday night. The tourist resort of Pahalgam in south Kashmir recorded a low of -4.8degC. Qazigund, the gateway town of the valley, saw the minimum settling at -2 degrees Celsius, Kokernag recorded a low of -1.2 degrees Celsius, while Kupwara in north Kashmir registered a minimum of -1.8 degrees Celsius. On Sunday, Gulmarg recorded 3 to 4 inches of snowfall and traffic situation was created due to slippery roads. Vehicles were stranded, following which the authorities cleared traffic between Tangmarg and Gulmarg and around 1 pm all the stranded vehicles were rescued. "The slippery road conditions and freezing temperature at the tourist spot complicated the situation. The officers on ground work hard and no tourist faced any difficulty," said a senior administrative officer at Gulmarg. Meanwhile, Jammu recorded 14.2 degree day temperature which is 3.8 degrees below normal. MeT in its daily bulletin has predicted party cloudy weather like conditions for next one week. "There is possibility of significant fall in minimum temperature by 2-3degC from normal temperature till 10 Jan and thereafter likely to rise by 1-2degC," MeT said in its advisory and predicted moderate fog over plains of Jammu Division likely to continue during next two days. J&K, mostly Kashmir valley, has witnessed prolonged dry weather conditions mostly for the past three months causing the rivers to dry up and prompting dozens of incidents of forest fires, weather and forest experts said. The India Meteorological Department's (IMD) Shimla office on Monday said that light snowfall was recorded in the higher reaches of Himachal. MeT department officials said that 2 cm snowfall was recorded in Koksar in Lahaul-Spiti district while trace snowfall was recorded in Kalpa (Kinnaur) and Gondla. During the last 24 hours, dense fog was observed in Sundernagar, while moderate fog was observed in Mandi and shallow fog in Paonta sahib. Cold wave was observed in Palampur. The weather office said that light rain or snowfall is also likely at isolated places on January 6, over high hills of the state, while dry weather is expected to prevail during the remaining days of the week. No significant change is likely in minimum temperature during next 24 hours, thereafter, they are expected to fall gradually by about 2-3 degrees during the next subsequent 3-4 days over the state. However, the maximum temperatures are likely to rise gradually by 2-4 degrees over many parts of the state except high hills and adjoining mid hills where maximum temperatures are likely to fall by 2-3 degrees during the next 2-3 days. As Himachal's higher reaches continue to experience colder nights, Tabo in the tribal district of Lahaul-Spiti recorded the lowest minimum temperature in the state at -10.2degC on Monday. It was closely followed by Kukumseri with a minimum temperature of -6.7degC and -4.2degC recorded in Kalpa (Kinnaur). The minimum temperatures were in the range of -10 to 0 degrees Celsius in the high hills, and in the range of -1 to 6 degrees in hills....