The met office on Wednesday said monsoon rain is expected to delay till the second week of July because of change in the weather pattern. It observed that the pace of penetrating monsoon currents in Pakistan is slower than the normal pattern. Therefore, a significant rainfall in central and upper parts of the country may occur during the last couple of days in the second week of July.
The slow pace of monsoon currents is expected to cause delay in the widespread rainfall in the country, the office said in its fresh advisory. However, it forecast, light to moderate intermittent rainfall in scattered places of Rawalpindi, Gujranwala and Lahore divisions, upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Kashmir from Friday evening.