KARACHI: The people in Karachi received some respite from Saturday’s scorching heat as a little more sea breeze blew through the city on Sunday which pulled the mercury down by 2.3 degrees Celsius on the scale, said a weatherman.

Responding to Dawn queries, he said that Thar desert towns of Chhore and Mithi, which were the hottest places in Sindh on Saturday, remained so on Sunday as well and experienced a slightly hotter weather than it was a day earlier and the mercury touch the mark of 42.5 degrees Celsius — half a degree Celsius more than Saturday’s 42 degrees.

He said that these heatwave conditions were occurring owing to a weather system which had created a low pressure area over the Arabian Sea off the India coast, which in turn was creating a vacuum over the Pakistan coast and adjoining areas and it subsequently was pulling in the hot continental air affecting the weather of the province.

Similar weather conditions are expected to continue for the next three to four days.

He said the maximum temperature recorded in the city on Sunday was 38.2 degrees Celsius and the minimum was 25.2 degrees. Humidity — the amount of moisture in the atmosphere — in the city early on Sunday morning was 66 per cent (against 60pc of Saturday) and in the evening it was recorded as 37pc (against Saturday’s 21pc).

He said that the weather in the metropolis on Monday was expected to remain hot and dry and the maximum temperature would remain between 38 and 40 degrees Celsius.

He said that some other towns in the province that experienced high temperatures on Sunday included Mirpurkhas (41 degrees Celsius); Dadu (40.7 degrees); Hyderabad and Nawabshah(40.5); and Rohri and Jacobabad (40).

Published in Dawn, October 9th, 2017