Widespread rains, snowfall to continue

PESHAWAR: The Met Office here Monday forecast widespread thunderstorm rain with snowfalls over the hills of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during next 24 hours and will continue with intervals till Tuesday.

According to spokesman of Met Office here, a strong western system is affecting northern parts of the country and likely to persist during next 48 hours. This strong weather system is expected to generate heavy rains with snowfall over the hills in upper parts of the country .

In next 24 hours, widespread thunderstorm rain with snowfall (scattered heavy falls) over the hills is expected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, upper Punjab including Islamabad, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, while isolated rain is likely in southern Punjab, upper Sindh, Quetta, Zhob divisions. The weather of Abbottabad, Peshawar, Mardan, Parachinar, Swat, Bannu and DI Khan will remain cloudy with chances of rain during this period.

Widespread rain with snowfall over the hills is expected in Upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, upper Punjab including Islamabad, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan during next 48 hours.

In last 24 hours, widespread rain occurred in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab including Islamabad, Kashmir, while scattered in upper and Southern Sindh.

The maximum rain was received by Risalpur 84mm followed by Saidusharif 83mm, Peshawar (PAF) 79mm, Chirat 70mm, Lower Dir 67mm, Rawalpindi 62mm, Islamabad, Kohat, Garidupatta 61mm,Islamabad( Golra) 58mm, Islamabad (Saidpur) 55mm, Mianwali 50mm, Pattan 49mm, Bannu 48mm, Rawalpindi (Shamsabad) 47mm, Rawalpindi (Bokra) 45mm, Dir 40mm, Khuzdar 39mm, Mangla 36mm, Kalat 34mm, Muzaffarabad 30mm, Murree 29mm, Balakot 25mm, Chitral 24mm, Joharabad 23mm, Bahawalnagar, Noorpur Thal 22mm, Sialkot, Kotli 21mm, Kakul, Chakwal 20mm, Lahore (A.P) 19mm, M.B.Din 18mm, Sialkot (A.P) 17mm, Gujranwala, Lahore (PBO) 15mm, Bhakkar 12mm, Okara, Bahawalpur and Sargodha 11 mm respectively during last 24 hours.

Malamjabba received 3.5 feet snowfall followed by Kalam 2 feet, Drosh one foot, Dir 08 inch, Murree 07 inch, Chitral 06 inch and Skardu 05 inch. Parachinar remained the coldest place where -10 C followed by Astore -07 C, Gupis, Skardu -03 C, Hunza -02 C minimum temperature was recorded. The pollen count remained 12 per cubic meter respectively.