Express News Service SRINAGAR: Kashmir is in the grip of intense cold and Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, recorded the coldest night of the last 30 years. Deputy Director MeT Kashmir Mukhtar Ahmad said the night temperature in Srinagar dropped to minus 8.4 degrees Celsius on Thursday. It was the coldest night in Srinagar in the last 30 years. Earlier, in 1991, the night temperature in Srinagar had dropped to minus 11.8 degrees Celsius. In 1995, the night temperature in Srinagar had dropped to minus 8.3 degrees Celsius. The lowest temperature ever recorded in Srinagar is minus 14.4 degrees Celsius. It was recorded in 1893. With the mercury dropping many degrees below freezing point, the water bodies including portions of the famed Dal Lake in Srinagar froze.