ISLAMABAD: The cloudy weather over the last two days has reduced temperature in the federal capital compared to the temperatures on Saturday and Sunday.

The maximum temperature on Tuesday was 32 degrees Celsius, which is a significant drop from the 38 degrees recorded over the weekend.

The Met Office has predicted rain and thunderstorms with strong winds in scattered places in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Fata, Islamabad, Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), Kashmir and upper Punjab including Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Gujranwala, Lahore, Sahiwal and Faisalabad.

Rains and strong winds may pose problems for farmers when harvesting their wheat crop. Though wheat harvesting and threshing has been completed in Sindh and southern and central Punjab, it is still going on in northern Punjab and KP.

“The coming few days will be difficult for wheat harvesters in these areas,” said Dr Mohammad Hanif, who is a spokesperson for the Met Office.

The Met Office has also said that due to the impact of the ebbing El-Nino effect, there will be a mixed trend in May, with more cloudy weather expected next week.

The weekend is expected to be hotter across the country.

Published in Dawn, May 4th, 2016