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MUNNAR: The temperature in Munnar, a major tourist destination, dipped below zero degrees Celsius on Wednesday. A Minus one-degree temperature was recorded in Kanan Devan Company's Chenduwara estate, Lakshmi estate and Kannimala yesterday morning. This figure was released by UPASI, a tea research foundation working in Munnar under KDHP. Officials informed that for the first time in the season, the temperature reached minus yesterday morning. Devikulam and Sevenmala recorded zero-degree temperatures while Silent Valley and UPASI Kendra in Munnar recorded one-degree temperatures. There was snowfall in the meadows of the Chenduwara factory division. Earlier on December 30, the minimum temperature in the Lakkad and Gundumala regions of Devikulam had reached zero.