With no let up in snowfall and rain for the fifth consecutive day today, Srinagar-Jammu national highway remained closed, severely affecting the road traffic as over 1,100 vehicles were stranded at several places on the stretch.

The 300-km highway is the only surface link between Kashmir valley and rest of the country.

"Due to fall of stones and landslides, the highway is closed for vehicular traffic for the fourth day today at Jawahar tunnel-Qazigund, Panthal and Ramban sections," a spokesman of traffic department said.

The number of stranded vehicles have gone up to 1100, most of them trucks carrying essential supplies to Kashmir valley, police officials said.

The vehicles are stranded at various points -- Ramban, Banihal, Patnitop, Udhampur and Nagrota on the highway, they said.

The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) was working to clear the highway but the continuous snowfall was hampering their operation, the officials said.

Jammu-Poonch highway is also blocked for the vehicular traffic due to snowfall at Dera-Ki-Gali area.

Banihal, Batote and Qazigund along the highway received heavy snowfall and rains for the fifth day. About 133 mm of snow and rain was recorded at Batote, 130.8 mm at Banihal and 82.6 mm at Qazigund till 0830 hours when it was still snowing and raining in the areas.