{"id":93017,"date":"2025-12-21T20:24:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=93017"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:41:01","slug":"rain-snowfall-mark-beginning-of-chillai-i-kalan-in-kashmir-prolonged-dry-spell-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/rain-snowfall-mark-beginning-of-chillai-i-kalan-in-kashmir-prolonged-dry-spell-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain, snowfall mark beginning of Chillai-I-Kalan in Kashmir, prolonged dry spell ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mughal, Gurez, Srinagar-Sonamarg roads closed; Vehicles plying on Tangmarg-Gulmarg road asked to use anti-skid chains<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gulmarg, Dec 21 (KNO): The rain and snowfall on Sunday marked the begging of the 40-day harshest winter period &#8211; Chillai-I-Kalan &#8211; and ending the prolonged dry spell in the Kashmir Valley. The higher reaches in the Valley received moderate to heavy snowfall, while plains witnessed moderate rainfall, with night temperature showing a slight improvement, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>An official told news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that the snowfall brought cheer to locals and tourists as it ended months long dry spell in the Kashmir Valley.<\/p>\n<p>He said that following the snowfall in the higher reached, the Mughal Road, connecting Shopian in Kashmir with Rajouri and Poonch in Jammu, was temporarily closed as a precautionary measure. \u201cSeveral other key routes, including the Srinagar\u2013Sonamarg\u2013Gumri (SSG) Road, Sinthan Road and the Bandipora\u2013Gurez road were also shut\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said that famous tourist ski-resort Gulmarg recorded over three inches of snowfall overnight, bringing cheers to locals and tourists who have been awaiting snowfall since long.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, authorities enforced traffic restrictions on the Tangmarg\u2013Gulmarg road to ensure public safety with drivers and vehicle owners asked to use anti-skid chains in view of the slippery road condition.<\/p>\n<p>The weather office has predicted generally cloudy conditions across J&amp;K, with light rain in the plains and snowfall over higher reaches during the next 48 hours, followed by partly to generally cloudy weather for the rest of the week\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mughal, Gurez, Srinagar-Sonamarg roads closed; Vehicles plying on Tangmarg-Gulmarg road asked to use anti-skid chains &nbsp; Gulmarg, Dec 21 (KNO): The rain and snowfall on Sunday marked the begging of the 40-day harshest winter period &ndash; Chillai-I-Kalan &ndash; and ending the prolonged dry spell in the Kashmir Valley. The higher reaches in the Valley received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jammu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93019,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93017\/revisions\/93019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}