UDHAGAMANDALAM (TIP): The temperature in and around this hill station, a major tourist spot, touched zero degree, with frost covering nearly 10 km area, officials said. Tourists and citizens ventured out only after 8.30am on Thursday, as the biting cold made them sit inside the rooms, they said.

A ‘white carpet of frost’ was seen over the plains, tea estates, including in and around the town, the famous botanical gardens and also Wenlock downs, they said.