LAHORE: The plains of the country continued to sizzle under the persisting severe heatwave on Tuesday with Lahore experiencing its highest-ever maximum temperature of the month (April).

According to the local Met department, the maximum temperature was 45 degrees Celsius which broke the record of 2010 when the city had recorded 44 degrees Celsius. The sun was blazing and appeared too much for the elderly and the children, especially when the latter were returning from schools.

The department said Sibbi, Noorpurthal, Bhakkar, Larkana and Dera Ghazi Khan recorded 47 degrees Celsius maximum temperature, while it was 46 degrees Celsius in Kot Addu. Rahim Yar khan, Khanpur, Bahawalnagar, Bahawalpur, Rohri, Sahiwal, Multan, Jacobabad, Faisalabad, Dera Ismael Khan and Jhang witnessed 45 degrees Celsius.

It forecast mainly hot and dry weather in most parts of the country in the next 24 hours.

However, dust-thunderstorm/rain is expected at a few places in Malakand, Rawalpindi divisions, Islamabad and Gilgit-Baltistan. Very hot weather is expected in plains of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sukkur, Shaheed Benazirabad, Larkana, Hyderabad, Naseerabad, Makran and Sibbi divisions.

Published in Dawn, April 19th, 2017