LAHORE, Feb 27: Traces of rain, strong wind and a partly cloudy weather in Lahore on Friday did little to change the feeling of an early summer here.

Some parts of the city received traces of rain early in the morning. It made the wind a bit cooler but the weather again became warmer around noon. Strong wind, however, continued to blow throughout the day.

The maximum temperature was 27.2 degrees C and the minimum 14.7 degrees C with 66 per cent humidity in the morning and 51 per cent in the evening. The Met office reported light rain in several cities in the NWFP and the Northern Areas, reporting 3-inch of snowfall in Astore. The rain and the snowfall were caused by a westerly system, it said.

It reported that Kalam received 18mm of rain, Muzaffarabad 13mm, Balakot 8mm, Kakul and Skardu 6mm each, Malamjabba and Gilgit 5mm each, Bunji 4mm, Garhi Dupatta and Saidu Sharif 3mm each, Sialkot and Mandi Bahauddin 1mm each.

The Met office expected a partly cloudy weather in Lahore, Sargodha and Faisalabad, and scattered rain with snowfall over the hills in Rawalpindi divisions and in most parts of the NWFP and the Northern Areas during the next 24 hours.