KARACHI: Cold winds coming from Quetta engulfed the city turning the night colder by six degrees centigrade and the day became chillier by two degrees centigrade on Friday, said a Met official adding that cold weather conditions were expected to continue for a few more days.

Speaking to Dawn, the meteorological official said that the minimum temperature recorded on Friday was 11 degrees centigrade as compared to 17 degrees on Thursday and the maximum temperature recorded on Friday was 27 degrees centigrade against Thursday’s 29 degrees. Humidity recorded on Friday was 23 per cent.

The officials said that on Saturday the weather was expected to remain dry with cold night and hazy and misty morning with the minimum temperature ranging between 10 and 12 degrees centigrade and the current cold wave was expected to continue for a few more days.

The temperature in the coldest place in the country, Kalat, located hardly a couple of hundreds of kilometers from Karachi, had further dropped by one degree centigrade in the past 24 hours from Thursday’s minus eight degrees centigrade to minus nine degrees centigrade on Friday.