The intense cold wave conditions continued unabated in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday as the minimum temperature stayed several degrees below the freezing point.             Srinagar city recorded a low of minus 7 degrees.The minimum temperature in the city last night was nearly five degrees below the normal for this time of the year.The Gulmarg recorded minus 7.8 degrees Celsius last night    Pahalgam recorded a low of minus 9.3 degrees Celsius – down from the previous night’s minus 8.3 degrees Celsius. Several water bodies in the Kashmir Valley have frozen due to the  bone-chilling cold.