Fog which started last weekend in most of plains of Punjab, Upper sindh and south KPK has made days to stay extra cool with partly sunny periods or no sun at all at different areas.
Today also thick cover of fog blanketed most of plain areas of Punjab including Islamabad, resulting in considerably below normal maximum temperature.

Gujrat

Gujrat

Islamabad

Islamabad

On the other side Karachi saw a surprise and unexpected rainfall last night in scattered parts of city and so does some nearby areas of lower sindh.

Karachi

Chief amount of rainfalls are PAF Base Faisal 4.0mm, Landhi 3.5mm, MOS 3.1mm, North Karachi, Karachi Airport 1.2mm, and Saddar 1.0mm. Traces of rainfalls reported from Masrror and Gulshan-e-Hadeed. 

Here are today,s max temp in various parts.

Dated: Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Astore 04.5 oC
Badin 26.0 oC
Bahawalnagar 11.0 oC
Bahawalpur A/P 12.7 oC
Bahawalpur City 13.1 oC
Balakot 19.5 oC
Bannu 21.0 oC
Barkhan 18.0 oC
Bhakkar 20.0 oC
Bunji 12.8 oC
Chakwal 14.5 oC
Cherat 12.0 oC
Chhor 27.2 oC
Chilas 14.5 oC
Chitral 11.8 oC
D.G.Khan 19.0 oC
D.I.Khan 21.5 oC
Dadu 22.5 oC
Dalbandin 20.0 oC
Dir 16.0 oC
Drosh 12.4 oC
Faisalabad 15.5 oC
Garhi Dupatta 19.5 oC
Gawadar 28.5 oC
Gilgit 14.0 oC
Gujranwala 15.0 oC
Gujrat 17.0 oC
Gupis 06.5 oC
Hunza 04.5 oC
Hyderabad 23.5 oC
Islamabad Z.P 18.0 oC
Jacobabad 19.5 oC
Jhang 17.4 oC
Jhelum 18.0 oC
Jiwani 26.0 oC
Joharabad 19.0 oC
Kakul 16.0 oC
Kalam 11.0 oC
Kalat 12.0 oC
Karachi A/P 27.3 oC
Kasur 13.8 oC
Khanpur 17.2 oC
Khuzdar 21.5 oC
Kohat 18.5 oC
Kot Addu 20.5 oC
Kotli 20.0 oC
Lahore A/P 14.7 oC
Lahore PBO 12.1 oC
Larkana 19.0 oC
Lasbela 29.0 oC
Layyah 19.7 oC
Lower Dir 18.0 oC
Malamjaba 08.5 oC
Mandibahauddin 18.5 oC
Mangla 17.5 oC
Mianwali 18.0 oC
Mirkhani 16.0 oC
Mirpur Khas 25.5 oC
Mithi 26.0 oC
Multan 17.5 oC
Murree 11.5 oC
Muzaffarabad 19.0 oC
Nokkundi 21.5 oC
Noorpur Thal 19.8 oC
Okara 12.5 oC
Ormara 28.0 oC
Padidan 23.5 oC
Panjgur 20.0 oC
Parachinar 14.8 oC
Pasni 27.0 oC
Pattan 19.0 oC
Peshawar A/P 19.5 oC
Peshawar City 19.3 oC
Quetta(Samungli) 13.0 oC
Quetta(Sheikh Manda) 13.0 oC
Rahim Yar Khan 18.0 oC
Rawalakot 15.5 oC
Islamabad A/P 17.5 oC
Rohri 20.0 oC
Sahiwal 12.7 oC
Saidu Sharif 15.5 oC
Sargodha 16.0 oC
Shaheed Benazirabad 24.5 oC
Sialkot A/P 13.3 oC
Sialkot Cantt 13.0 oC
Sibbi 24.0 oC
Skardu 06.3 oC
Sukkur 19.5 oC
Thatta 25.5 oC
Toba Tek Singh 16.3 oC
Turbat 28.0 oC
Zhob 15.0 oC

First Good Rainfall for upper Pakistan !!

A western disturbance is affecting upper parts of the country and as a result scattered light to moderate with isolated heavy rainfall occurred in upper / western punjab , upper kpk, kashmir and Islamabad. Light rainfall was also reported over northern hills.
Weather next 24 hrs:
More rain (with snowfall over the hills) is expected at isolated places in Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore divisions, Islamabad, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. Foggy conditions are likely to prevail over plain areas of Punjab and upper Sindh during morning hours. Twins Special: STORM REPORT: Initially drizzle started earlier than expected at about 6 AM and became light rain around 9 AM. Steady light to moderate rainfall continued till 4 PM accumulating about 10 times higher than forecasted!  Maximum WIND SPEED West @ 44 km/h at Chaklala, SSW @ 36 km/h in Westridge Maximum temperature: Islamabad: 11.5, Rawalpindi 13 C Islamabad 8 January
Rainfall (mm) / Snowfall (inch):
Rainfall (mm): Rawalpindi (Chaklala 43, Shamsabad 39), Islamabad (ZP 36, Golra 27, Bokra 25, Saidpur 24),  Malamjabba 34, Chakwal 16, Parachinar, Jhelum 14, Risalpur 13, Kamra, M.B.Din 10, Sahiwal 09,  T.T.Singh, Sargodha 08, Saidu Sharif 07, Faisalabad, Mangla, Lower dir, Dir, Cherat 06, Jhang, Joharabad,  Kalam 05, Quetta 04, Multan, Peshawar 03, Kohat, Bhakkar, Zhob, Bannu 02, Mianwali, Okara, Chitral 01. Snowfall (inch): Malamjabba 10, Kalam 02.
Today's Lowest Temperatures:
Skardu -10°C, Astore, Gupis -07°C, Kalat -06°C, Parachinar -05°C, Gilgit -04°C, Dir, Hunza,  Malamjabba -03°C, Quetta -02°C, Chitral -01°C.

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..