{"id":310,"date":"2008-11-16T01:06:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T19:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/?p=310"},"modified":"2024-11-13T22:53:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T17:23:47","slug":"weather-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Weather Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The capriciousness of our weather is proverbial, and it is one of the three &#039;W&#039;s that wise men say cannot be relied upon in Kashmir. This week we had an early snowstorm which was unusually accompanied by continuous thunderclaps. I have never experienced such a combination and it was actually quite disconcerting. <\/p>\n<p>My younger son, who has the sibling&#039;s effortless knack of saying things that make his brother uncomfortable, remarked that it sounded like the rumbling of a volcano. A few days earlier I had regaled them with old tales from my childhood, including the legend that the <b>Takht-e-Suleman<\/b>, also known as <b>Shankracharya Hill<\/b>, is actually a dormant volcano. <\/p>\n<p>These pictures taken from my living room window over three consecutive days provide an example of the vagaries of Kashmir&#039;s weather:<\/p>\n<p><b>13 November 2008<\/b><br \/>\nMax : 20\u00b0C Min: 12\u00b0C<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/images\/2008_Nov_13.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p><b>14 November 2008<\/b><br \/>\nMax : 1\u00b0C Min: 0\u00b0C<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/images\/2008_Nov_14.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><b>15 November 2008<\/b><br \/>\nMax : 8\u00b0C Min: 1\u00b0C<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/images\/2008_Nov_15.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/images\/sign.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The capriciousness of our weather is proverbial, and it is one of the three &#039;W&#039;s that wise men say cannot be relied upon in Kashmir. This week we had an early snowstorm which was unusually accompanied by continuous thunderclaps. I have never experienced such a combination and it was actually quite disconcerting. My younger son, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1771,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/1771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}