Severe Thunderstorms Lashed Northern Punjab and Kashmir !

Yesterday around mid-night the storm developed in north/ northwest of Islamabad and started to move eastwards. As it covered twin cities of islamabad and rawalpinidi it gained strength. 1-2 inch size hails occurred in scattered parts of cities. Murree got handsome amount of rains and hails as well.
Few western parts of Islamabad even stayed dry as they just got windstorm and few light rain periods.

Storm gained strength further and expanded nicely to grip parts of kashmir and northeast punjab including jhelum, kharian, gujrat, sialkot, narrowal, pasrur, wazirabad, gujranwala and lahore.

Wind storm at sialkot airport reached upto 120 kmph from Northwest while upto 96 kmph at Lahore airport.

                                                       Some clicks from Islamabad.

Rainfall Amounts:
Islamabad Z.P, Rawalpindi 17, Lahore 16, Mianwali 13, Faisalabad 10, Balakot 09, Mangla, Garhi Dupatta 06, Jhelum 5, Gujranwala , Murree, Muzaffarabad, Sargodha, Rawalakot 04, Kotli, Astore 03, Skardu 02, Sialkot A/P , Malamjaba , Mandibahauddin, Sialkot Cantt 01.


Chances of scattered Thunderstorm activity in same areas later today or during night hours.
 

Record Heat across the country !

Vagaries of apkistan warns about very hot and dry weather during the current week all over the country. The plain areas of Punjab, KP, Balochistan and Sindh will be the centre of heat where day temperatures will cross over 45°C and centrals parts will touch a critical level of 50°C. Temperatures in mountainous areas of GB and AJK will also rise by 4-5°C above average resulting into rapid melting of snow and glaciers.


Mainly very hot and dry weather is expected over most parts of the country. Very hot weather conditions would continue over plain areas of Punjab, KP, Sindh (Sukkur, Larkana, Mirpurkhas, Shaheed Benazirabad divisions), Sibbi & Makran divisions.

Maximum Temp.

Dated: Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Astore	27.0 oC
Badin	45.5 oC
Bahawalnagar	48.0 oC
Bahawalpur A/P	46.7 oC
Bahawalpur City	45.5 oC
Balakot	38.0 oC
Bannu	43.6 oC
Barkhan	40.5 oC
Bhakkar	49.0 oC
Bunji	33.3 oC
Chakwal	42.0 oC
Cherat	33.5 oC
Chhor	47.0 oC
Chilas	38.5 oC
Chitral	35.0 oC
D.G.Khan	46.3 oC
D.I.Khan	46.5 oC
Dalbandin	45.5 oC
Dir	34.0 oC
Drosh	35.2 oC
Faisalabad	45.5 oC
Garhi Dupatta	40.0 oC
Gawadar	39.0 oC
Gilgit	34.0 oC
Gujranwala	44.0 oC
Gujrat	44.0 oC
Gupis	29.0 oC
Hunza	27.5 oC
Hyderabad	48.5 oC
Islamabad Z.P	41.0 oC
Jacobabad	50.0 oC
Jhang	44.5 oC
Jhelum	45.5 oC
Jiwani	37.5 oC
Joharabad	46.3 oC
Kakul	35.0 oC
Kalam	29.5 oC
Kalat	33.0 oC
Karachi A/P	38.5 oC
Kasur	45.0 oC
Khanpur	48.5 oC
Khuzdar	41.0 oC
Kohat	43.5 oC
Kot Addu	48.1 oC
Kotli	41.1 oC
Lahore A/P	45.8 oC
Lahore PBO	45.5 oC
Larkana	52.0 oC
Lasbela	46.5 oC
Layyah	45.5 oC
Lower Dir	41.0 oC
Mandibahauddin	46.2 oC
Mangla	44.7 oC
Mianwali	45.5 oC
Mirkhani	33.6 oC
Mirpur Khas	45.0 oC
Mithi	48.5 oC
Moen-jo-Daro	51.0 oC
Multan	46.2 oC
Murree	29.0 oC
Muzaffarabad	38.6 oC
Nokkundi	45.5 oC
Noorpur Thal	48.0 oC
Okara	46.5 oC
Ormara	34.0 oC
Padidan	50.5 oC
Panjgur	42.0 oC
Parachinar	22.0 oC
Pasni	37.5 oC
Pattan	40.0 oC
Peshawar A/P	43.0 oC
Peshawar City	43.0 oC
Quetta(Samungli)	37.0 oC
Quetta(Sheikh Manda)	36.5 oC
Rahim Yar Khan	50.0 oC
Rawalakot	34.0 oC
Islamabad A/P	41.0 oC
Risalpur	43.5 oC
Rohri	48.5 oC
Sahiwal	45.0 oC
Saidu Sharif	38.3 oC
Sargodha	46.5 oC
Shaheed Benazirabad	47.5 oC
Sialkot A/P	44.5 oC
Sialkot Cantt	44.0 oC
Sibbi	51.0 oC
Skardu	29.6 oC
Sukkur	50.5 oC
Thatta	39.5 oC
Toba Tek Singh	45.3 oC
Turbat	48.5 oC
Zhob	36.5 oC