Government offices switched to winter schedule Monday coinciding with Paush 1, 2059 of the Nepali calendar for the next two months. Government offices will open at 10 AM as usual but will close down one hour earlier at 4 PM during the entire winter.

The move in routine. The mercury has been falling in the kingdom with the advent of winter. Kathmandu Sunday recorded a maximum of 20.9 degrees Celsius and a minimums temperature of four degrees Celsius. Jumla recorded the lowest temperature Sunday at -3.0 Celsius.