KARACHI: Many towns from upper to lower regions of the province, including its capital, received downpour during the last 24 hours with Gulshan-i-Hadeed in Karachi getting the maximum amount of 40 millimetres of rainfall — over one and a half inches — in the early hours of Saturday, said a Met official.

The official told Dawn that Landhi received 15mm, Saddar (10mm), PAF Base Faisal (5mm), PAF Base Masroor (3mm), Karachi airport (2.6mm), Nazimabad (1.4mm) and University Road 1mm of rain fall.

He said that the minimum temperature recorded in the city on Saturday was 17.5 degrees Celsius, the maximum temperature was 27 degrees Celsius and humidity — a measure of the amount of moisture in the air — was 35 per cent.

He forecast that the weather in the city on Sunday would be fair, partly cloudy and the minimum temperature was expected to range between 16 and 18 degrees Celsius.

About the rain in other towns, he said that Larakana in upper Sindh received the maximum amount of 22mm. Other towns that received rains included Dadu (18mm), Jacobabad (11mm), Padidan and Badin (6mm) and Rohri (1mm) while Nawabshah and Hyderabad received traces, he said.

In his forecast for Sunday for the interior of the province, he said that the weather in Sukkur, Larkana, Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas divisions was expected to remain partly cloudy with chances of rain and thundershowers.

In Sukkur, hailstorm and rain hit the city and its adjoining towns of Thull, Ghauspur, Pano Aqil, Ghotki, Daharki, Mirpur Mathelo, Ubauro. Siraj Rashdi, a leader of the Sindh Chamber of Agriculture, said the rain and hailstorm at this time of the year had damaged the standing crops of wheat, tomato, mango and date.

Published in Dawn, March 15th, 2015

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