LAHORE: The Flood Forecasting Division of the Met Department on Wednesday forecast another spell of widespread thunderstorm/rain with scattered heavy falls and very heavy falls at isolated places, over south and southeast Sindh from July 23.

It said moderate rainfall with isolated heavy falls is expected over the upper catchments of all major rivers along with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab during this period.

Meanwhile, the River Chenab at Khanki was in a medium flood and at Marala and Qadirabad in a low food. The Indus at Kalabagh and Chashma and the River Kabul at Nowshera were also in a low flood. A low to medium flooding was expected in the nullahs of the Ravi and Chenab Thursday.

Rain-thunderstorm occurred at scattered places in Sindh, south Punjab and at isolated places in Faisalabad, Sargodha, Malakand, Hazara, Sibbi divisions and Gilgit-Baltistan on Wednesday.

Khanpur recorded 46mm of rain, Bahawalpur 16, RYK eight, Balakot 35, Badin 12, Sukkur 10, Karachi nine, Shaheed Benazirabad and Moenjodaro seven, Padidan three, Jacobabad and Rohri two, Dadu, Mirpurkhas and Tandojam one, Sibbi five and Astore three.

Rain-thunderstorm (with isolated heavy falls) is expected at scattered places in Sindh, eastern Balochistan (Zhob, Kalat, Sibbi and Naseerabad divisions) and south Punjab (Bahawalpur, Multan, Sahiwal, DGK divisions) on Thursday. Rain-thunderstorm is expected at isolated places in KP, Fata, upper Punjab (Rawal-pindi, Lahore, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Faisalabad divisions), Islamabad, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.

Published in Dawn, July 20th, 2017