Swat, Kabul and Indus rivers in high flood

04 Jul, 2005

The river Swat is in very high flood at Monda, river Kabul is in high flood at Warsak and Nowshera while Indus is in high flood at Kalabagh with falling tendency. The river Indus is in medium flood at Chashma and in low flood at Taunsa and Guddu while the rivers Chenab and Ravi are in low flood at Marala and Balloki respectively.
According to forecast of Flood Forecasting Division, Indus is likely to range between 480,000 cusecs to 500,000 cusecs (medium flood level) during the period from 1500 hours of July 5 to 1200 hours of July 6.
According to local met office, the monsoon low over western Behar has moved in northerly direction and on Monday it lies over South-western Uttarpradesh.
A well marked seasonal low lies over Balochistan and adjoining areas. Yesterday's westerly wave over Kashmir persists while south-westerly monsoon is reaching Punjab upto 2000 feet.
According to weather pundits, this weather pattern is likely to cause scattered light to moderate rain over the upper catchments of all the major rivers along with northern and north-eastern Punjab.
Isolated rain is likely to occur over central and south-western Punjab and also over lower Sindh coastal and north-eastern Balochistan and NWFP during next 24 hours.
Meteorological Radar recorded scattered light to moderate rain over Gujranwala, Lahore and Sargodha divisions, isolated light rain was reported from Multan, Faisalabad, Kohat, DG Khan, Rawalpindi and D I Khan divisions along with north-eastern Balochistan and upper catchments of the rivers Ravi and Chenab.

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