KARACHI: The metropolis faced yet another hot day as the temperature settled at 43.3 degrees Celsius as against Monday’s 44°C.

A Meteorological department official told Dawn that the minimum temperature recorded in the city was 27°C.

He added that the humidity was nine per cent in the morning and eight per cent in the evening.

The hot weather, in addition to the month of fasting, kept most people confined to their homes.

About Wednesday, the weatherman said it would be hot to very hot and dry. “The maximum temperature will be around 41°C to 43°C,” he added. The Met department’s Tuesday alert said the heatwave will likely prevail for another two to three days when the temperature will range from 42°C to 44°C and after that the mercury will start to climb down.

Chhor was the hottest place in Sindh at 46.5°C

“There will be no sea breeze during this time while hot and dry continental winds from Balochistan will prevail not only in Karachi but throughout the province,” he said.

Chhor was the hottest place in Sindh on Tuesday where the recorded temperature was 46.5°C.

The temperature in other cities of the province was as follows: Mithi (45.5°C); Jacobabad, Nawabshah (44°C); Badin, Larkana, Sukkur (43.5°C); Dadu (43.1°C); Mirpurkhas, Rohri (43°C); Moenjodaro, Sakrand (42.5°C); Hyderabad and Padidan (42°C).

These cities will have similar temperatures on Wednesday.

‘Hot weather led to no death’

Sindh Information Minister Nasir Shah on Tuesday said the government had no official reports of any person’s death because of the ongoing heatwave in the metropolis.

He said he had received reports from the city administration, executive director of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and other hospitals and all of them had confirmed that no such death was reported during the past three days.

The minister added that he had spoken to Edhi Foundation’s chief Faisal Edhi who told him that those bodies that had been reported by the media had reached his organisation’s morgue and their relatives told him that they had died ‘suddenly’.

Cyclone being watched

Meanwhile, Monday’s well-marked low-pressure area over the southwest Arabian Sea now lies as a “depression” about 1,330 kilometres from the south of Masirah island of Oman.

It is very likely to intensify into a tropical storm by Wednesday and is expected to move north-westwards towards Yemen-Oman coast along the Arabian Peninsula.

The Met department’s Cyclone Warning Centre is closely monitoring the situation and will issue an alert in case of any negative development.

Published in Dawn, May 23rd, 2018