The Pakistan Meteorological Department has predicted cold and dry weather in the city as minimum temperature recorded at 10.0 ºCelsius.
Minimum temperature was recorded -14 Celsius in Skardu, -12 at Gopis, Astore and Leh, -08 at Anantnag, -07 at Bagrote, -06 in Gilgit, Hunza and Srinagar, -05 in Shopian, Parachinar and Ziarat.
The maximum temperature during the day could remain between 24 – 26 ºCelsius in the port city today.
Rain-thunderstorm (with snowfall over hills) is expected in Islamabad, upper and central Punjab, upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir.
Tens of thousands of Indian farmers, protesting over agricultural laws that they say threaten their livelihoods, have vowed to carry on their around-the-clock sit-ins despite cold weather that has already led to some deaths among them.
Since late November, when thousands of farmers arrived in trucks and tractors to camp out on the borders of New Delhi, nearly 30 people have died, several of them as a result of freezing weather, farmers said.
The minimum temperature today in the port city has been recorded 17.5 Celsius as northeastern winds blowing in the city with nine kilometers per hour speed.
The PMD stated that temperatures across the country will drastic fall from December 15.
Winter in Punjab, Northern Sindh, and Northern Balochistan expected to be longer and more severe this year, that is according to Mahesh Palawat, Skymet Weather's vice-president.