Srinagar, Jan. 19 -- Intense cold conditions persisted in Kashmir Valley with Srinagar recording a low of minus 7.0degC, the weatherman said on Tuesday.

A meteorological department official told GNS that the mercury fell by six notches in the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir against minus 6.4degC on previous night. At minus 8.4degC, Srinagar witnessed season's coldest night last week and it was chilliest night in more than 25 years. In 1991, Srinagar witnessed a low of minus 11.8degC while the lowest ever temperature was recorded on 31 January 1893 when the mercury had gone down to minus 14.4 degrees Celsius. Dal Lake and other water bodies here have frozen.

Meanwhile, the minimum temperatures continued far below normal in other part...