"The Srinagar-Jammu highway is closed for traffic due to heavy snowfall near Jawahar Tunnel and many other places along the route," a spokesman of the Traffic Department said.
Landslides occurred at a few places along the 294-km arterial highway, forcing the authorities to stop the traffic which was scheduled to ply from Srinagar to Jammu.
The highway was closed on Feb 5 also due to fresh snowfall and rains.
Meanwhile, the plains of the Valley, including Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, received moderate snowfall overnight, while heavy snowfall was recorded in the higher reaches.
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Mercury in Qazigund - the gateway town to Kashmir Valley - settled at zero degrees Celsius as against 0.2 degrees Celsius the previous night and the town received 5 cm of snow.
The tourist resort of Pahalgam, in south Kashmir, recorded a snowfall of 3 cm and the mercury there appreciated by over one degree to settle at minus 5.2 degrees Celsius as compared to minus 6.7 degrees Celsius previous night.
The resort recorded five feet of snow, the official said.
The mercury in Kokernag, in south Kashmir, settled at a low of minus 1.3 degrees Celsius last night, an increase of two degrees from the previous night's minimum of minus 3.3 degrees Celsius.
The town received 13 cm of snow, the official said.
The mercury in Kupwara, which recorded a low of zero degree Celsius the previous night, settled at 0.2 degrees Celsius last night and recorded 25 cm of snowfall.
Kargil was the coldest place in the state as the mercury settled at a low of minus 15.0 degrees Celsius as compared to the previous night's 16.4 degrees Celsius.
The MeT Department has said there would be a decrease in precipitation from tomorrow.