Cold, dry weather likely to persist

Mainly cold and dry weather is expected in the most parts of the country in the next 24 hours, the Met Office said on Friday. Fog is likely in south Punjab and upper Sindh during morning/night. "Continental air is prevailing over most parts of the country," it said.
In the last 24 hours: Cold and dry prevailed over the most parts of the country, with a scattered rain and snowfall over the hills in Malakand, Hazara, Kohat, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Sargodha and Faisalabad Divisions, Islamabad, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Maximum rainfall was recorded in Mangla as 22 mm, Narowal 20 mm, Cherat 15 mm, Jhelum 14 mm, Mirkhani 11 mm, Kohat, Kotli, Murree, Chakwal, Hafizabad and Gujranwala 10 mm, each, Gujrat, Rawalakot and Parachinar 8 mm, each, Malamjabba, Garhi Dupatta and Sialkot Airport 7 mm, each, Saidu Sharif, Noorpurthal 6 mm, (Islamabad) Zero Point, Muzaffarabad and M B Din 5 mm, each, Saidpur and Airport, and (Rawalpindi) Shamsabad and Chaklala, Faisalabad 4 mm, each.
Murree received 9.5 inches of snowfall, Malamjabba 9, Astore 1.7, Bagrote 1.6, Skardu, Kalam 1 and Hunza 0.5. Minimum temperature was recorded in Skardu as minus 10 degrees Celsius, Bagrote minus 9, Astore minus 7, Malamjabba and Parachinar minus 6, each, Hunza, Kalat and Kalam minus 5, each, Rawalakot minus 3 and Murree and Drosh minus 2, each, over the past.