KARACHI, July 28: Heavy rain lashed the city on Monday as the Met Office forecast more rain for Tuesday.
Pakistan Meteorological Department officials told Dawn that the city received an average of 79.2 millimetres of rain on Monday.
They added that in the current monsoon Karachi had received more than 308 millimetres of rain. Last year the rainfall in July was 0.3 millimetres.
They said Karachi’s record of rains showed that the city had received the maximum amount of rain in July 1967 which had totalled 429.3 millimetres.
They said that on Monday the PMD observatory at Masroor Base recorded 55 millimetres of rain, Faisal Base 89 millimetres, University Road 79 millimetres, Pakistan Quarters 45.8 millimetres and Airport 105 millimetres.
The PMD officials said that the maximum and minimum temperatures were 34.5 degrees Centigrade and 26.5 degrees Centigrade, respectively. They added that humidity was 92 per cent.
They said that they would update their data about rain around midnight.
According to an Edhi rain warning, a monsoon depression on Monday lay over Eastern Rajasthan. “It is likely to move in a western north-westerly direction. Under its influence, heavy to very heavy rainfall is expected over Sindh in the next 48 hours. Scattered to moderate, at times heavy, rainfall at a few places is expected over southern Punjab and south eastern Balochistan during the same period.”
