LAHORE: The country is going to have another round of widespread rain and snowfall over the hills on Tuesday (tomorrow) and Wednesday, Met office reported on Sunday.

In its latest forecast, the department said a westerly wave is likely to enter western parts of the country on Monday.

Under the influence of this weather system, there will be widespread rain-thunderstorm (with few moderate to isolated heavy falls) in upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, Mardan and Kohat divisions), northeast Punjab (Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore divisions), Islamabad, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir from Tuesday to Wednesday night.

Snowfall over hills is also expected in Malakand division (Swat, Chitral, Kalam, Malam Jabba and upper Dir), Hazara division, Murree, Galliyat, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan during the period.

Rain-thunderstorm is expected at scattered places in lower Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Bannu, D.I. Khan divisions) and Punjab (Sargodha, Faisalabad, Multan, Bahawalpur, D G Khan and Sahiwal divisions) on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Rain-thunderstorm (with snowfall over the hills) is expected at scattered places in Balochistan (Quetta, Zhob, Kalat, Makran divisions) on Monday and Tuesday.

Light rain is also expected at isolated places in upper Sindh (Sukkur, Larkana divisions) on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Published in Dawn, February 4th , 2019