{"id":301400,"date":"2018-08-14T08:19:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T08:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301400"},"modified":"2018-08-14T08:19:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T08:19:33","slug":"himachal-pradesh-shimla-records-highest-rainfall-in-august-in-117-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/himachal-pradesh-shimla-records-highest-rainfall-in-august-in-117-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Himachal Pradesh: Shimla records highest rainfall in August in 117 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301401 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/rainss-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/rainss-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/rainss-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/rainss-558x420.jpg 558w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/rainss.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/>Shimla in Himachal Pradesh, on Monday, witnessed the highest rainfall for August in 117 years, the weather office said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In August 1901, 277 mm rainfall was recorded in a day according to the Meteorological (MeT) department data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per, Met Centre Director, the second highest showers were witnessed, with 172.6 mm rains recorded in 24 hours till at 8.30 am on August 13.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Eleven districts of the state recorded excessive rainfall, he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sujanpur Tira recorded the highest rainfall at 307 mm in the state on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shimla in Himachal Pradesh, on Monday, witnessed the highest rainfall for August in 117 years, the weather office said. In August 1901, 277 mm rainfall was recorded in a day according to the Meteorological (MeT) department data.\u00a0 As per, Met Centre Director, the second highest showers were witnessed, with 172.6 mm rains recorded in 24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2898,2009,2014],"tags":[1340,4143,4142,2662],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301402,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301400\/revisions\/301402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}