Scattered rain; more forecast

LAHORE:Scattered rain was recorded in the City here on Monday while Met office predicted similar weather conditions for the next 24 hours.

Several city localities witnessed medium to low but scattered rainfall in various spans of the day. Following the rain, Wasa officials were present in the field. Wasa MD visited rain emergency camps, disposal stations and ponding points and passed on the spot directions.

Met officials said depression lies over west of Madhya Pradesh (India) and surroundings and further moving westwards. Due to this depression, strong monsoon currents were penetrating in southern parts of the country and in upper parts from evening/night while a trough of westerly wave was also present over upper parts of the country. They predicted that rain-windstorm/thundershower was expected in Sindh, Northeast/South Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Pothohar region, Islamabad, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan while heavy to very heavy falls with gusty winds/windstorm were also likely at scattered places during the period.

Rainfall was recorded at several cities across the country. Monday’s maximum temperature was recorded at Chilas, Dalbandin, Nokundi and Sibbi where mercury reached 41°C, while in Lahore, it was 35.8°C and minimum was 27.4°C.