The Met Office has asked the farmers to make plans to irrigate crops effectively keeping in view a mainly dry spell in the country.
It said that the crops may receive a light rain in Punjab, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan this week with a light weather in Kashmir besides dry spell in Sindh and Balochistan.
It also said that the growers should uproot weeds from their standing crops to help produce a better output. "Removing weeds from the standing crops is very important as weeds utilize moisture and food which are to be utilized by the crop. As a result a considerable loss in yield occurs every year," it warned.
Daytime temperature level may remain slightly normal in the most parts of the country with a below normal during nighttime in agriculture plains. Wind is expected to remain normal in the most of the agricultural plains with dust/sand storms in Southern Punjab and Upper Sindh.
Sunny weather is expected to grip Karachi with temperature ranging up to 39 degrees Celsius and humidity to 50 percent on Wednesday and Thursday. Karachi sizzled with 40 degrees Celsius on Tuesday. Dry weather is likely to prevail over the most parts of the country in the next 24 hours with a rain-thunderstorm and gusty winds in Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir.
In the past 24 hours: Dry weather gripped the most parts of the country with an isolated rain-thunderstorm and gusty winds in Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, Kohat and Rawalpindi Divisions, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Murree received 42mm of rainfall, Balakot 43mm, Malamjaba 42mm, Pattan 35mm, Kalam 34mm, Garidupatta 33mm, Saidu Sharif and Muzaffarabad 28mm, each, Kakul 25, Upper Dir 24mm, Risalpur 15, Astore 13mm, Peshawar City, Lower Dir and Cherat 8mm, each and Peshawar Airport 9mm. Temperature in, Turbat, Thatta and Shaheed Benazirabad was 38 degrees Celsius, each.
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