RAWALPINDI: Another rain spell will hit the country from Sunday which will continue till Tuesday.

The Met Office said a westerly wave was likely to enter Pakistan through Balochistan on Saturday night and expected to grip the upper parts of the country from Sunday.

“Under the influence of this weather system, scattered rain with snowfall over the hills is expected in upper Punjab, lower Balochistan and Sindh, upper Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (Fata) from Saturday night to Tuesday.”

Rain with thunderstorm is expected at scattered places in lower parts of the country, including Makran, Kalat, Karachi, Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas divisions from Saturday night to Monday morning and in the upper parts of the country, including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, from Sunday night to Tuesday.

The system may produce scattered thunderstorm with isolated heavy to very heavy falls in Hazara, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Gujranwala divisions, Islamabad and Kashmir from Sunday night to Monday.

The Met Office did not rule out the possibility of landslides in the Kashmir and adjoining areas of Baltistan.

Published in Dawn March 1st , 2015

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