Tamil Nadu: Ooty turns mini-Kashmir as mercury drops to 1.3°C

Ooty, a preferred hill station in Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiris district, noticed the minimal temperature on Sunday drop to 1.3°C whereas persevering with to report frost.

The sharp drop within the mercury together with the frost turned the sleepy and idyllic hill station right into a mini-Kashmir on Sunday morning.

Nonetheless, folks’s regular lives had been disrupted by the bitter chilly, as they had been seen huddling round bonfires to maintain themselves heat.

The hilly district of Nilgiri experiences frost yearly from November to February. Nonetheless, this yr, it began late in January as a consequence of storms accompanied by rain. Icy plains had been noticed in Ooty Metropolis and surrounding areas corresponding to Kanthal, Pinker Publish, and Thalai Kunta.

As a result of frost, the water drops on the lawns in Ooty and its surrounding areas had been seen as frozen lumps. Particularly in areas like Ooty Racecourse, Thalikunda, Kanthal, Pinkerpost and many others., it seems like a white carpet has been draped over the frosty inexperienced lawns.

As much as an inch of snow was discovered on parked automobiles. Resulting from snowfall, a number of persons are affected by runny nostril, cough and rash on fingers and ft.

In the meantime, the chilly within the village, located within the higher reaches of Tamil Nadu, despatched the locals, unaccustomed to such extraordinarily low temperatures, scrambling for the hotter indoors whereas throwing life out of substances.

Massive patches of grasslands within the Nilgiris district gave the impression to be one thing akin to a wonderland, with recent dew drops, usually known as white frost, carpeting the inexperienced grass.

The white frost was seen throughout a number of areas of the favored hill station, together with Ooty Nagar, Thalikunda, HPF, Kanthal and Fingerpost.

As much as an inch of ice was discovered on parked automobiles, with residents complaining of experiencing issues making an attempt to fireside up their automobiles.

In line with native MeT officers, there was important variation within the day and evening temperatures in latest weeks, with the utmost temperature hovering over 25 levels Celsius.