LAHORE: Rain continued to lash different cities in the country on Tuesday and more, heavy to very heavy at places, is expected in the next 48 hours.

Rain is also expected over the catchments of the rivers Sutlej, Ravi and Chenab.

The Met office reported that Chhor received 43mm of rain, Rawalakot 36, Sahiwal 33, Okara 30, Sialkot Cantt 27, Sialkot Airport 23, Mithi 20, Gujrat 16, Badin, Faisalabad and Kotli 15 (each), Sibbi 12, Gujranwala 10, Lahore City 9, Drosh 8, Jhelum 7, Mirkhani 6, Bahawalpur Airport 5, Dera Ismail Khan and Mandi Bahauddin 4 (each), Multan 3, and Astore, Lahore Airport and Bahawalnagar 2.

Lahore received rain in the morning. It remained cloudy afterwards. The maximum temperature was 27.3 degrees C and the minimum 22.4 degrees C.

Rain is being generated by a trough of westerly wave, lying over northern parts of the country, a low pressure area over northeastern Maharashtra that moved northwestwards and lay over northwestern Madhya Pradesh and adjoining Rajasthan, and moist current from the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.

The Met office forecast partly cloudy to cloudy weather and chances of thundershowers with isolated heavy falls in Lahore in the next 24 hours.

Fairly widespread thundershowers with gusty winds would occur over Sindh (with isolated heavy falls over Mirpur Khas, Hyderabad and Karachi divisions), southern Punjab (with isolated heavy falls over Dera Ghazi Khan and Bahawalpur divisions) and Kashmir (with isolated heavy falls).

Scattered thundershowers with gusty winds may come about over northern Punjab (with isolated heavy falls over Lahore, Gujranwala, Rawalpindi divisions and Islamabad), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (with isolated heavy falls over Malakand, Peshawar and Hazara divisions), FATA (with isolated moderate to heavy falls), southern and northeastern Balochistan (with isolated heavy falls over Kalat division) and Gilgit-Baltistan.

There could be urban/localised inundation in areas of heavy downpours.

Published in Dawn, September 3rd, 2014