Winter continued its relentless onslaught in Jammu and Kashmir with authorities closing down schools in the Kashmir Valley till Class 8 and the Ladakh region shivering with the mercury at a biting minus 11.4 degrees Celsius

The minimum temperature in the summer capital Srinagar was recorded at minus 2 degrees Monday morning while it was minus 4.2 degrees in both north Kashmir's Gulmarg ski resort and south Kashmir's Pahalgam hill station.