{"id":17105,"date":"2019-03-14T21:20:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T15:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=17105"},"modified":"2019-03-14T21:20:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T15:50:05","slug":"met-forecast-fresh-rain-spell-next-week-traffic-deptt-to-take-decision-on-highway-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=17105","title":{"rendered":"MeT forecast fresh rain spell next week, traffic deptt to take decision on highway tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Srinagar, March 14:<\/i><\/strong><i> The weatherman on Thursday forecast fresh spell of rains from March 19 even as the traffic authorities said that the decision regarding movement of vehicles on Srinagar-Jammu highway, the only surface link connecting Kashmir with the rest of the world, would be taken tomorrow. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThere would be generally cloudy sky with occasional light rain till 15th March morning. Thereafter mainly dry weather upto March 19 when there would be one more rainy spell,\u201d a meteorological department official said here. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>He said that Srinagar\u2014the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir &#8211; recorded a minimum temperature of 3.2 Degrees Celsius last night against 3.7 degrees Celsius normal for this time of the season. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The official said that Qazigund, the gateway town of Kashmir recorded a low of 2.2 degrees Celsius while the mercury in Kokernag town in south Kashmir settled at a low of 2.5 degrees Celsius while Kupwara town in north Kashmir registered a minimum of 1.0 5 degrees Celsius. Gulmarg, the famous ski-resort in north Kashmir, witnessed a low of minus 4.8 degrees Celsius while the famous health resort of Pahalgam also recorded a minimum of minus 0.2 degrees Celsius.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Meanwhile, the traffic department said that the decision regarding movement of vehicles would be taken on Friday. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe decision on movement o traffic on the highway shall be taken tomorrow after accessing the weather and road condition,\u201d said a traffic department official. (GNS)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, March 14: The weatherman on Thursday forecast fresh spell of rains from March 19 even as the traffic authorities said that the decision regarding movement of vehicles on Srinagar-Jammu highway, the only surface link connecting Kashmir with the rest of the world, would be taken tomorrow. \u201cThere would be generally cloudy sky with occasional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17105","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\/17105","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=17105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17105\/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=17105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}