WD D-1 !!!

WD D-1 caused light to heavy scattered rainfall in upper and northern Pakistan.

Quetta received seasonal first snowfall in northern balochistan while rain reported in other parts of northeast balochistan.
During evening time a strong unexpected thunderstorm developed in the twin cities which continued till late night. This caused a significant thunder-rainstorm occasionally with strong winds. 
Good rains occured in kpk kashmir and pockets of upper punjab as well.
First seasonal snowfall occured in nothern pakistan including Murree Nathya gali areas.

Murree

Murree

Murree

Rainy spell has ended now which will b followed by a cold wave impacting most of pakistan from tonight adn will continue next few days.

From weekend dense foggy conditions will prevail in most parts of Punjab as well as Peshawar and sukkur divisions which will drop max temp in most of plains.

Rain/snowfall amounts during last 24 hours.

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October Rains and Snow by WD !!

As was expected WD O-3 gave widespread rainfall in Upper and northern parts of country while isolated pockets of souhtern areas.Many of stations got above normal rainfall for October in a single spell.

Rain in mm

Islamabad,The capital city broke 1997 october rainfall record of 95 mm in 24 hours by a huge difference as got 135mm in 24 hours.Min temp remained at 16C with full rainy day.

Islamabad Night view

Islamabad After Rain

Northern areas got a rare snowstorm in month of october as 3-4 feet of snow reported in Isolated areas od Naran and Kaghan valleys casuing traffic jams, landsliding and power cut.

Naran Valley

The system has moved towards northern himalyas and leaving pakistan gradually.Still there are chances of scattered showers and snow over hills till late tonight and whole country will stay dry from tuesday onwards for some days.
Gujranwala reported hailstorm this morning with thunders.

Gujranwala

Gujranwala

WD O-3 is likely to bring widespread rainfall for upper and northern parts of country during saturday- monday !!
Clouding from this WD has already started to prevail in Parts of country and saturday will see widespread clouding in Punjab, north and northeast balochistan,kpk kashmir and GB.

As this is the proper wintery WD so there are very less chances of any lightning and thundering during this spell except in last phase of spell when it will b ending !!

Rain light to moderate with isolated heavy fall expected in Northern Balochistan inlcuiding Quetta, kalat, chaman, zhob areas on saturday and early sunday. Som showers for Dalbandin areas tonight and saturday.

Sindh will mainly see some clouding with no meaningful rains Except some drizzles in northwestern tip.

It will rain at different areas of KPK including fata, peshawar, mardan. malakand, hazara, kohat, bannu , chitral during saturday to early monday with chances of snowfall over higher altitudes of northern kpk.

Islamabad will start to get drizzle/light rain from late saturday towards evening.Proper rains in capital from late saturday night and continuing till monday-early tuesday with varying intensity.
Days will stay very cool with rains.

Many parts of Upper/central Punjab including Faisalabad, sargodha, mandi bhauddin, jhelum, chakwal, gujrat, sialkot, gujranwala, hafizabad, narrowal will receive rain during sunday morning to monday late and northeastern parts till tuesday early.

Lahore,jhang, sahiwal and adjoining areas will get light to moderate rains during sunday late and monday.

DG khan, Multan in south Punjab will get showers on saturday night and sunday,

Most parts of azad and jammu kashmir including muzaffarabad, mirpur, sarinagar, jammu and Gilgit Baltistan will see rains and snowfall over hilly areas during saturday to tuesday early.

WD O-2 gave huge rainfall over different areas of upper and some central pakistan during last night and today. Many areas got handsome rainfall with scattered hails.Windy conditions dropped the day temperatures to the range 24-27c at many cities while below 15c at hilly areas like murree and adjoining.
More rain expected tonight in northern and upper belt of country with Thunderstorms and hails.
Rain figures during last 24 hours till 7pm Pst are as follows:

Bhakkar 66, Murree 62, Malamjaba 49, Kalam 43, Jhelum, Muzaffarabad 36, Joharabad, Chakwal 35, Sargodha 34, Dir, Parachinar 31, Noorpur Thal, Mianwali, M.B.Din 30, Chitral 27, Islamabad (Golra 24, Bokra 16, Saidpur 13, Z.P 08), Garhi Dupatta, Kakul 24, Risalpur, Balakot 23, Saidu Sharif 20, Rawalakot 18, Mangla 17, Drosh, Gujrat 16, D.I.Khan 15, Pattan 14, Rawalpindi ( Chaklala 13, Shamsabad 08), Sialkot (AP 12, City 11). Kohat 12, Lower Dir, Kotli 11, Mirkhani 10, Dalbandin 07, Peshawar (City 06, AP 05), Hunza, Astore 05, Bannu, Cherat 04, Gujranwala 03, Jiwani 02, Gawader, Gilgit, Gupis 01.

Peshawar

Rawalpindi

Gujrat

Kohat

Kohat

 

WD O-2

A fresh western rain system is going to effect country from Sunday till Tuesday... 
 
Rain moderate to isolated heavy expected with thunders lightning and fast winds in kharian jhelum gujrat sialkot mandi bhauddin Pindi Islamabad sargodha faisalabad gujranwala Lahore Peshawar murree Kashmir kohat bannu khushab mianwali chakwal Mardan and other areas adjoining to these stations during Sunday night and Monday morning... Rain also expcted in Islamabad Pindi jhelum gujrat Peshawar chakwal mandi bhauddin areas Kashmir etc on Monday late night or Tuesday early morning...

Further scattered rain showers will b seen in different parts of western... coastal and central balochistan on Sunday with light to moderate intensity... Quettatoo can get some light showers... 
multan and adjoining belt can witness fast winds and passing drizzle or light showers by Sunday afternoon or towards night...  
Some clouding for upper western sindh but no chance of any rain so far in province... light snowfall may occur at hills of northern areas as well!! 

Rain is in store for many parts of sindh including Karachi during next weekend... 
 
After this spell day and night temp will fall rapidly... winters are at doors...

Islamabad 14-10-15

 

Another rainy spell expected during muharram holidays that shall b updated later.. 

WD Plus Low Presure Rains !!

Widespread rains occurred in last two days in different parts of Punjab kashmir kpk kashmir and southeast Sindh...
Weather became so pleasant in Much of Punjab and kashmir today.Max temp remained between 22c to 30C at places.
Rain amounts  of todays are mentioned below :

Rainfall: Lahore (A/P 142, City 92), Bahawalnagar 109, Okara 100, Bahawalpur (A/P 87, City 64), Mangla, Shorkot 85, Sahiwal 83, Rawalakot 80, Sialkot (A/P 77, City 70), Jhelum 70, M.B.Din 65, Kotli 61, Murree 60, Faisalabad 58, Gujrat 53, T.T.Singh 48, Sargodha 47, Garhi Dupatta 43, Kasur 42, Gujranwala 37, Parachinar 33, Skardu 31, Astore 30, Chakwal 29, Kakul 25, Jhang, Muzaffarabad 23.

Islamabad

 

Islamabad

JPJ,Gujrat

Islamabad

Pasrur

Detailed weather covering summary of past days of july and focusing on coming weather in Pakistan !!
Summary of last 3 weeks:
Month of july started with monsoon rains across different parts of country and as a result monsoon start was declared as normal to above normal after seeing the progress and precipitation over country in last 3 weeks.

Many stations from central,northern and southern parts of country are above normal for month of july in rainfall.
Some cities are highlighted here:
Islamabad 484.4 mm
Bahawalnagar 126 mm
Lahore 294 mm
Multan 94 mm
Kakul 330 mm
Peshawar 155 mm
Meanwhile we see some areas are below normal too as rains were observed to be mostly scattered to isolated with huge variations in intensity.Gujrat-sialkot-jhelum belt did not get any worth mentioning rains till day and remaining days also seem with chances of moderate rainfalls.

#Upcoming Week:
As we see since last two days rains focusing lower parts of sindh as well as much of kpk with some parts of southwest punjab.
Widespread heavy to extremely heavy rains expected in most of cities of sindh and parts of kalat.zhod divisions.
Heavy rains can be seen in different parts of kpk and south punjab as well.

#Flood update:
Flood related warning are already in air through media as rains have started cause land sliding, flash flooding in northern areas including sawat, dir chitral causing death toll to rise upto 34 till day (as per media).

Glacier burst in north areas of kashmir has made situation more worst as it can cause many villages to wipe way totally as it will flow down to plains... and after reaching plains it can cause high level extreme flooding in river Jhelum and further as water will move down towards south punjab it will be joined by flood water of rains in south punjab and same scenerio may continue throughout the indus river till it falls to sea.

So flooding will be seen in many parts of south punjab,kpk, northeast baluchistan and central/southern sindh in next 4-8 days.


#Depression to hit sindh:
As the parts of sindh getting good rainfall since last 2-3 days we see the depression present currently over Indian states of Gujarat-Rajasthan to effect sindh from sunday night/monday.
Depression is in full peak intensity at this time and will become more widespread in next 24 hours.
Monday-thursday seem very special for sindh as destructive rains cannot b ruled out.

#Weather details for rains:

#Sindh:
Most of areas will get rains moderate to extremely heavy during sunday to thursday.
Heavy falls to start from southern/lower parts and to shift upward to central and finally uper sindh by tuesday/wednesday.
Areas of tharparkar, mithi, badin,thatta, mirpurkhas,hyderabad divisions can get 150-250 mm rainfall in next 2-3 days causing widespread flooding and risk for loss of life as well as property.

#Karachi will see moderate to some heavy rainfall at times during next 3 days.There is no high chances of cloud bursts for city as overall 50-150mm rainfall can be observed at karachi in next 2-3 days.

Central and upper areas including jaccobabad, sukkur, larkana divisions will see heavy rains during monday-thursday can accumulate to 100-200mm causing urban flooding.

#Baluchistan:
Rains scattered to widespread in kalat, zhob, lasbel, areas in next 3 days can cause flooding in local streams of kirthar ranges. Makran divisions and northern baluchistan can witness rainfall in next 3 days as well with moderate intensity falls.

#KPK:
Western plus eastern interaction causing widespread continuous rains in many upper and northern parts since last night...more widespread moderate to heavy rains expected in next 2 days which will boost up flooding situation specially in central and southern parts.
Urban flooding can cause power outages plus traffic issues in peshawar as well.

#Kashmir: scattered rains expected in next 3-5 days at times of varying intensity.

#Islamabad:
Moderat to isolated heavy falls expected at times throughout the coming week keeping weather on pleasant side. No chances of any flooding in Nullah-Lai if conditions remain normal as per current analysis.

#Punjab:
Regions including DG khan. leyyah, multan, rajan pur can get moderate to heavy rains in next 3-4 days causing risk of flash flooding in low lying and village areas.

scattered rains for sargodha,faislabad,mainwali, sahiwal, bahawalpur, rahim yar khan areas in next 2-3 days.No major chances of flooding in region.

We see rains decreasing for upper and northeastern punjab from monday but chances for isolated to scattered moderate falls will remain alive in next week.rains can gain intensity in later days of week.

Widespread rain-thundershower occurred at Punjab, Islamabad and Kashmir, scattered rain-thundershower occurred at Malakand, Peshawar, Kohat, Mardan, D.I. Khan divisions and FATA while at isolated places of Quetta divisions. Weather remained hot and humid in other parts of the country.
More widespread rain thundershower is expected in Hazara, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Gujranwala, D.G.Khan divisions, Islamabad, and Kashmir. Scattered rain thundershower in KP (Peshawar, Kohat, Mardan, D.I.Khan), Punjab(Sargodha, Faisalabad, Sahiwal, Bahawalpur, Multan divisions), while isolated in Malakand, Zhob, Sibbi, Quetta, Sukkar, Larkana, Hyderabad divisions. Isolated heavy falls is also expected in Rawalpindi/Islamabad, Lahore, Gujranwala and D.G.Khan divisions.

Rainfall:
Islamabad (Golra= 156, Bokra=117, Saidpur=97,Z.P=71) Lahore PBO=63, Okara=62, Multan=59, Toba Tek Singh=48, Faisalabad=45, D.G khan=42, Risalpur=40, Bahawalnagar, Malamjaba=38, Murree=35, Bahawalpur City=34, Joharabad=33, Rawalakot=32, Kot Addu=29, Sahiwal, Layyah=24, Chakwal, Muzaffarabad, Kakul=23, D.I Khan=21, Shorkot, Bahawalpur (A/P), Balakot =15, Rawalpindi (Chaklala=14, Shamsabad=12), Garhi Dupatta =12, Noorpurthal=11, Sargodha, Parachinar, Saidu Sharif, Barkhan=10, Kasur=09, Lahore A/P=08, Jhang = 06, Kotli=04, R.Y Khan=03, Jhelum, Khanpur, Dir=02۔ 

Pics from Islamabad

 

Much Needed Monsoon is here finally !!!

Since last 3-4 days scorching heat is making life boring and tiring in much of Pakistan specially in upper parts as the region is facing very high heat index and high levels of humidity.

But Good thing is that this severe weather will end by monday as monsoon is progressing towards Pakistan.
Monsoon axis is running from Bangladesh to Kashmir along himalyas as a result widespread rains expected along this belt and adjoining plains.
A WD will also interact with this monsoon axis resulting in some heavy to very heavy rains in parts of pakistan and north indian states.

According to typical monsoon standards and pattern,Thundercloud development has started today over jammu kashmir.Which will b boosted by monday afternoon/evening.

Areas like Sialkot,gujrat,bhimber, narowal etc can see fast winds or gale tonight with slight chances of light rain in pockets.

Monday is expected to b windy in many parts of Upper pakistan as monsoon will b penetrating to Upper parts.
First proper development from kashmir side expected on monday afternoon onwards which can give rains to sialkot,gujrat,jhelum,narrowal,pasrur,gujranwala and parts of lahore by monday evening/night.
By monday night/tuesday early monsoon will grip much of upper pakistan so on tuesday scattered rains will occur over upper punjab,upper kpk,Islamabad,kashmir and adjoining areas.

Rains will descend to Central Punjab by tuesday late.And One active rainfall expected over Multan, DG khan areas by tuesday night or wednesday/thursday.

Monsoon entering to eastern sindh is also in sight after coming wednesday (will b updated timely)
Parts of northeast Balochistan will witness some showers/TS too during mid or later week.


Warning:
Local streams of kashmir,narrowal,  sialkot can see local flooding due to some heavy rains during tuesday-Friday.Urban flooding cannot b ruled out for parts of gujranwala and lahore divisions if rain intensity falling increases in short span of time.

Weekly summary of rains is mentioned here:
Monday:
Isolated to scattered light to moderate rains for northeast punjab and kashmir.
 
Tuesday:
Scattered rains expected in Upper punjab,upper kpk,islamabad and kashmir with possible some heavy falls in pockets of kashmir and northeast punjab.Rains approaching central and western Punjab.
 
Wednesday:
Rain with some decrease in intensity  to continue in Upper Punjab,upper/central kpk.islamabad and kashmir.A active rainfall expected in Faisalabad,sargodha divisions too.

Thursday:
Rains continue in above mentioned areas and picking intensity again.Rain/TS over Multan and northeast Balochistan also ....

Friday:
Rain restricting to kashmir and Upper parts of country.
From these upcoming rains temp drop expected over much of upper half of country.

Weather outlook next 3-4 days.... !!!
Weak premonsoon currents will start reaching Jammu kashmir from mondayand a weak WD also will start effecting the country from tonight...
As a result from monday afternoon we will see daily developments over jammu kashmir due to interaction of easterlies plus westerlies.... and development over upper kpk due to WD...
Pockets of kashmir,gujrat,jhelum,sialkot can get rain by monday night or tuesday early....
Isolated rain for Twins,peshawat,kohat,chakwal,gujranwala,lahore also in sight on tuesday mainly in afternoon/night hours...
So Isolated to scattered weak to moderate intensity Thunderstorms will keep effecting upper punjab,upper kpk,kashmir,islamabad during monday night-friday....

Regarding temp its expected to b humid and hot across country but temp in islamabad will hardly b able to touch 40c in next 2 days.... Lahore can shoot upto 42c on monday/tuesday.
Gujrat with northeast cities will hardly cross 40/41c today and tomorrow...

No sufficient drop in temp but relief expected over upper pak fro tuesday due to mentioned rains...

There is no chance of any heavy rains for twins,upper punjab this week....

Monsoon onset for northeast Belt of Pakistan including Islamabad seems around 6/7 July ...

Sindh/south Punjab,Balochistan will keep facing dry weather atleast next some days..
Temp in karachi expected to b above 40C today and tomorrow... but from tuesday/wednesday things will start coming toward normal track so no major heat wave for city as rumors are being created all around....
Monsoon onset for any part of sindh does not in sight till 10th of july.

Pre-Monsoon Over north and Heat in south !!!

Karachi – 20th June, 2015: 45°C 
Yesterday was a record hot day in Karachi history by following stats:

1) It was the hottest days of last 15 years; 45.5 was recorded on 7th June, 2000.

2) It was the first ‘45°C’ also in Karachi since June, 2000.

3) It was first time ‘in June’ since 2000 that Karachi temperature reached 45 and first time since 23rd June, 2007 that it touched & crossed ‘44° in June’

4) It was first time since 21st May, 2011 i.e. in 4 years that Karachi temperature crossed 44°C.

5) It was the hottest day of any Ramzan in my life that at least for last 26 years, last time the hottest days of Ramzan I experienced was in late September of 2006 when about a week long heat wave in Karachi with max temperature around 38 to 42.

So in Top 3 hottest days in my life:
1 – 7th June, 2000 (45.5)
2 – 20th June, 2015 (45)
3 – 23rd May, 1989 (45)

(By vagaries Waseem Ahmad)

Widespread Premonsoon rain-thundershower occurred in upper Punjab, Hazara division and Kashmir while at isolated places in Malakand, Peshawar, Bannu, Kohat, D.I Khan, D.G. Khan, Hyderabad, Zhob divisions, Islamabad and Gilgit-Baltistan. Weather remained very hot and humid in other parts of the country.

Pics from JPJ(Gujrat) which got 57.6 mm as per personal rain gauge !!!

Rain-thundershower associated with gusty winds is expected at scattered places of Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Hazara divisions and Kashmir, while at isolated places in Malakand, Peshawar, Kohat, Bannu, Mardan, Sargodha, Sahiwal, Lahore, Faisalabad, Zhob, Mirpurkhas divisions, Islamabad, FATA and Gilgit-Baltistan in next Hot and humid weather is likely in other parts of the country.

Chief Amount of Rainfall During Last 24 hrs in mm:

Murree=47, Gujranwala=36, Faisalabad=25, Sialkot A/P=24, Bhakkar=20, Balakot=18, Gujrat=17, Mandibahauddin=14, Sialkot Cantt=14, Joharabad=13, Sargodha =11, Chakwal=10, Kotli=10, Malamjaba=10, Cherat=8, D.G.Khan=7, Okara=6, Saidu Sharif=6, D.I.Khan=5, Zhob=5, Rawalakot=4, Garhi Dupatta=4, Jhelum=3, Dir=2, Muzaffarabad=2, Chhor=2, Noorpur Thal=1, Lahore PBO=1, Bannu=1, Kakul=1, Lahore A/P=1, Sahiwal=1, Chilas=1

 

Very hot and humid weather has gripped much of country from khyber to kashmir since yesterday.
Islamabad for the first time touched 40'c yesterday and crossed 40'c today for this summer...
Remaining parts of upper/central pakistan also faced very tough day and same conditions will continue tomorrow untill relief from sunday.
Today weak cumulus  were observed over kashmir ....Chances of premonsoon devlopment over jammu kashmir saturday evening/night and WD over upper kpk by saturday evening...
Weather will make a twist from saturday night as rain chances will increase for northeats punjab twins,upper kpk and kashmir as the sunday approaches...
Light to moderate rain for Jhelum,sialkot,gujrat,kashmir,twins,peshawar etc on sunday ...
Sunday will b quite pleasant with clouds and winds over upper punjab,kpk,islamabad and kashmir....
Scattered thunderstorms and showery rains for many parts of upper/central punjab, kashmir,twins,kpk GB and north Balochistan by monday onwards till thursday...
Rain with TS can be seen in parts of south punjab and northeast baluchistan on monday/tuesday/wednesday.
Mirpur khas divisions in sindh will continue to receive light to moderate premonsoon rains in next 2-3 days....
Dry for other parts of country.

Todays max of some cities :
Bhakkar 48c
Larkana,jaccobabad 47c
Rahim yar khan, lasbella, okara 46c
Lahore, multan, faisalabad 44c
Karachi,Islamabad 41c
Peshawar 42c
Gilgit 39c
Murree 28c

Since the start of June,2015 weather taking many twists across the Pakistan.As the northern areas were enjoying cold effects due to prevailing WD,southern parts of country were sizzling with hot conditions.Sindh cities were having normal temperatures of 45-48C but Coastal belt of Balochistan like pasni, jeewani, gawadar were going crazy with temperatures rising upto 49.5C at pasni...
Main reason for this sudden rise was arrival of northwestern winds over coastal baluchistan.

Islamabad on other hand seeing very pleasant summers,Both min and max temperatures of city remained below normal in whole month of may. Hardly 3-4 times capital recorded above 20c as minimum temperature..
Days remained below normal too with max of 39C for month of may.

Rains due to WD over scattered areas of country made temp to fall across the region.Many areas of sindh got severe Thunderstorms and temp dropped to 20c even below for some stations.
Hyderabad city got 38 mm rainfall while A/P reported 08mm rainfall with gusty winds.
Dadu, rohi, mithi, badin, sukkur, larkana and adjoining areas also got handsome rains.

Current system has almost ended over the country but isolated rain chances will remain there for parts of kashmir,Islamabad, GB and northern KPK.

Heat will increase in many parts from sunday/monday and temp will rise up quickly.
We  see temperatures for Upper parts will not go for a new record of high mark as PMD expected below normal to normal temp for much of upper and northern pakistan during month of june.

A low pressure area which is going to form in arabian sea will move toward N/NW direction by sunday.Till now no chances of its converting to cyclone and probably it will fizzle out in sea before hitting any land.No threats for any coastal area of Pakistan.

Premonsoon activities expected for Upper and eastern parts of country around mid of june.

Pics from recent WD goes below !!!

Lahore,By Raheel

Murree,By Fakhar

Gujrat,By Waqas

Rawalpindi,By Bilal

Rawalpindi,By Danial

Rawalpindi,By Bilal

Lahore,By raheel

3-June-2015

WD which is effecting country since last 2/3 days has covered areas from Islamabad to Karachi with scattered dust storms and light to moderate rains..
Good thing is that after a long dry spell many stations of sindh reported rain with severe dust storms and Thunder/lightning..
Rawlakot got highest rainfall of 41 mm in last 24 hours while Murree got 28 mm, Lahore 07mm and many cities got traces..
Temp is also on lower side for many upper and central parts of country.. 
Scattered rains for many parts expected in next 36 hours...
Heat will increase by coming weekend across the country...
Todays pics from Islamabad and Karachi respectively.

Heat wave affecting southern Pakistan.... 
Dadu baked at 49C today while sibbi remained scond highest at 48c as max temp today...
Heat wave will expand to much of country in couple of days.... 
Previous WD gave Good rains at upper parts... 
Rain amounts and pics from Islamabad are below...

Mangla=30, Rawalpindi=29, Balakot=21.5, Parachinar=21.2, Murree=19, Pattan=16.2, Cherat=12, Kakul=10.2, Kotli=10, Jhelum=9.6, Rawalakot=8.8, Dir=8, Peshawar City=6.4, Gujrat=6.2, Malamjaba=6, Saidu Sharif=5, Mirkhani=4.4, Sialkot A/P=3.6, Lower Dir=3, Chakwal=2.2, Gupis=2, Astore=1.9, Muzaffarabad=1.4, Chitral=1.2, Kalam=1, Risalpur=1, Bunji=Trace, Chilas=Trace, Gilgit=Trace, Sialkot Cantt=Trace,