India's lowest recorded temperature was in Dras, Ladakh. However, temperatures on Siachen Glacier near Bilafond La () and Sia La () have fallen below , while blizzards bring wind speeds in excess of , or hurricane-force winds ranking at 12—the maximum—on the Beaufort scale. These conditions, not hostile actions, caused more than 97% of the roughly 15,000 casualties suffered among Indian and Pakistani soldiers during the Siachen conflict.