City anticipated to obtain 150mm of rainfall in subsequent 4-5 days

Commuters push their motorbikes alongside a side road all through a monsoon rainfall in Karachi on July 5, 2022. —AFP

KARACHI: An afternoon after the torrential showers lashed Karachi, the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Thursday forecast that the port town is anticipated to obtain round 150 millimeters of rainfall all through the following 4 to 5 days underneath the affect of the fourth monsoon spell.

In its day-to-day record, the Met Office forecast heavy rains within the port town nowadays, including that this rain spell is anticipated to proceed till August 14.

“Monsoon currents from Bay of Bengal are penetrating in higher and decrease portions of the rustic. A westerly wave may be found in higher and western portions of the rustic,” stated the PMD.

The climate division warned that heavy rains would possibly generate city flooding in Karachi, Hyderabad, Larkana, Shaheed Benazirabad and Mirpurkhas from August 11 to 13.

Flash flooding is anticipated in Qilla Saifullah, Loralai, Barkhan, Kohlu, Mosa Khel, Sherani, Sibbi, Bolan, Kalat, Khuzdar, Lasbella, Awaran, Turbat, Panjgur, Pasni, Jiwani, Kohat, Swabi, Nowshera, Mardan, Peshawar, Karak, Bannu, Tank, Waziristan and hill torrents of Dera Ghazi Khan all through the forecast duration, it added.

Rain coupled with thundershower is anticipated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kashmir, Punjab, Sindh, northeast and south Balochistan and Gilgit Baltistan nowadays (Thursday).

However, any other monsoon gadget will hit Sindh from August 17 or 18, the PMD added.

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