KARACHI: The people of Karachi experienced hot and dry weather conditions on the second consecutive day on Sunday when the mercury crossed the 40-degree Celsius mark while weathermen saw the trend continuing during the next couple of days.

The Met office said that the maximum temperature was 40.5 °C and with 30 per cent humidity.

A Met official said that currently the winds blowing from Balochistan side bordering Iran were actually causing such hot and dry weather conditions in the city. “And this is quite normal in late March and April,” he added.

“We expect that the same weather conditions may prevail in April when the people will be fasting in the holy month of Ramazan with the temperatures ranging between 37 °C and 40 °C. In these weather conditions air normally comes to stop in the daytime and starts blowing later in the evening.”

With the passage of time, the humidity would increase and that would raise the feel-like temperature as well, he warned.

Published in Dawn, March 28th, 2022