{"id":16730,"date":"2026-04-10T00:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=16730"},"modified":"2026-04-10T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:48:18","slug":"met-forecasts-intermittent-rain-spells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/met-forecasts-intermittent-rain-spells\/","title":{"rendered":"MeT forecasts intermittent rain spells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Weather to remain dry from April 13 onwards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Srinagar, Apr 09: The Meteorological Department on Wednesday forecast light rain and thundershowers at scattered places in Jammu and Kashmir over the next two days, with a gradual rise in day temperatures expected during the coming week.<\/p>\n<p>An official of the MeT Centre Srinagar told the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that brief spells of light rain or thundershowers are likely at scattered locations on April 9\u201310, with the possibility of hailstorms at isolated places during the afternoon hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe weather is expected to remain partly cloudy on April 11\u201312, with brief spells of light rain at a few places towards evening. Conditions are likely to remain generally dry on April 13\u201314, followed by cloudy skies and light rain at isolated places on April 15\u201316. The department has forecast dry weather again from April 17 to 20,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers have been advised to resume agricultural operations, while a gradual rise of 4\u20136 degrees Celsius in maximum temperatures is expected over the next six days.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Srinagar recorded a maximum temperature of 17.1\u00b0C, 1.7 degrees below normal, and a minimum of 7.0\u00b0C, slightly above normal. Qazigund recorded 16.2\u00b0C maximum and 5.6\u00b0C minimum, while Pahalgam registered 11.8\u00b0C and 3.0\u00b0C respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Kupwara recorded a high of 16.4\u00b0C and a low of 4.0\u00b0C, while Kokernag settled at 14.6\u00b0C maximum and 4.8\u00b0C minimum. Gulmarg, the coldest place in the Valley, recorded a maximum of 5.5\u00b0C and a minimum of minus 2.5\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>In the Jammu region, Jammu city recorded a maximum of 25.5\u00b0C, 4.9 degrees below normal, and a minimum of 12.2\u00b0C. Banihal registered 16.6\u00b0C and 6.6\u00b0C, Batote 16.0\u00b0C and 5.4\u00b0C, while Katra recorded 23.0\u00b0C maximum and 10.7\u00b0C minimum.<\/p>\n<p>Bhaderwah recorded a maximum temperature of 15.5\u00b0C and a minimum of 3.4\u00b0C, the MeT office said. (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather to remain dry from April 13 onwards Srinagar, Apr 09: The Meteorological Department on Wednesday forecast light rain and thundershowers at scattered places in Jammu and Kashmir over the next two days, with a gradual rise in day temperatures expected during the coming week. An official of the MeT Centre Srinagar told the news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16732,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16730\/revisions\/16732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}