No relief is expected from the freezing cold weather for at least three days in state as it is likely to remain dry and cold, a forecast bulletin issued by the state meteorological department warns. Srinagar recorded season’s new low overnight, as the mercury fell by more than 4 degrees Celsius below the freezing point. The temperature recorded last night was minus 3.8 degrees Celsius. The mercury fell to a low of minus 4.3 degrees Celsius overnight, which was a departure of two degrees from the normal, marking city’s new low during the current season, an official of the department said. The freezing weather condition in city has left the peripheral surface of Dal lake frozen and covered with a thin-icy layer. The valley is inching close to winter season’s harshest spell, which otherwise begins annually on December 21lasting for 40 days ending in January. Pahalgam resort in south Kashmir remained the coldest with mercury falling to a low of minus 4.8 degrees Celsius, the official said. In north Kashmir’s Gulmarg resort, famous skiing destination which received a spell of snowfall recently, the minimum temperature settled at minus 0.2 degrees Celsius. In south Kashmir’s Qazigund town, the minimum temperature was recorded at minus 4.3 degrees Celsius, as the mercury fell to a low of minus 4.7 degrees Celsius in north Kashmir’s frontier Kupwara. Leh town in the remote Ladakh region, which is located outside Kashmir valley, recorded an extremely cold night as the mercury fell to a low of minus 13.8 degrees Celsius, the official said. Ladakh region, which remains cut-off from the rest of the state during the winter season, and the Zojilla pass, which connects Ladakh to Kashmir, remained buried under the white blanket. In Kargil, another district in Ladakh, the mercury fell to a low of minus 10.0 degrees Celsius overnight.