{"id":1544,"date":"2020-06-19T10:36:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T10:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2020-06-19T10:36:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T10:36:11","slug":"kolkata-wet-weekend-on-the-cards-predicts-met-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=1544","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata: Wet weekend on the cards, predicts Met | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<section class=\"_2suu5 _24fIT clearfix  undefined undefined \">\n<div class=\"_3v5m2 image_wrapper \">\n<div class=\"_2gIK-\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-76459990,imgsize-53933,width-400,resizemode-4\/76459990.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photo for representative purpose only\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><span class=\"_3sXlO _1Ee83 img_cptn\">Photo for representative purpose only<\/span><\/p>\n<p>KOLKATA: A low-pressure trough that runs from Pakistan to Manipur across Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and sub-Himalayan Bengal and <!-- -->Assam<!-- --> is set to trigger <!-- -->heavy showers<!-- --> in north Bengal and moderate rain in Gangetic Bengal till June 22. Kolkata will receive light to moderate showers till weekend, said the <!-- -->Met office<!-- -->. <br \/>\u201cThe trough will lead to heavy showers across the hills. It will be less in the foothills and moderate in south Bengal. While the trough will have a greater impact in north Bengal, it will continue to trigger in the south as well,\u201d said deputy director-general of meteorology Sanjib Bandopadhyay. <br \/>\u201cAlong with the trough, south-west <!-- -->monsoon<!-- --> currents will keep the showers consistent in Kolkata and south Bengal,\u201d said a meteorologist. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/kolkata-wet-weekend-on-the-cards-predicts-met\/articleshow\/76460022.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo for representative purpose only KOLKATA: A low-pressure trough that runs from Pakistan to Manipur across Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and sub-Himalayan Bengal and Assam is set to trigger heavy showers in north Bengal and moderate rain in Gangetic Bengal till June 22. Kolkata will receive light to moderate showers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1592562973_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}