{"id":15850,"date":"2019-01-21T11:38:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T06:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=15850"},"modified":"2019-01-21T11:38:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T06:08:23","slug":"moderate-to-heavy-snow-rain-forecast-for-jammu-and-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=15850","title":{"rendered":"Moderate to heavy snow, rain forecast for Jammu and Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Srinagar:<\/i><\/strong><i> Fresh snowfall started in the valley on Monday as the Met forecast moderate to heavy rain and snowfall across Jammu and Kashmir over the next two days till Wednesday.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Widespread moderate to rather heavy rain and snowfall is likely to occur during the next 24 hours(till Tuesday),&#8221; a Met Department official said. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;A western disturbance is active over the state. Its intensity will decrease from Wednesday onwards&#8221;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A western disturbance is the name given to an extra-tropical storm in the Mediterranean Sea under whose influence rain and snowfall occurs in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Srinagar recorded minus 0.3 degrees Celsius while it was 0.2 in Pahalgam and minus 4 in Gulmarg.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Leh town recorded minus 5.6 while Kargil was the coldest at minus 14 degrees Celsius.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Jammu city was 11.9, Katra 10, Batote 2.1, Bannihal 1.1 and Bhaderwah 1.9 degrees Celsius.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Fresh snowfall started in the valley on Monday as the Met forecast moderate to heavy rain and snowfall across Jammu and Kashmir over the next two days till Wednesday. &#8220;Widespread moderate to rather heavy rain and snowfall is likely to occur during the next 24 hours(till Tuesday),&#8221; a Met Department official said. &#8220;A western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}