The Met Office on Wednesday said that a fresh monsoon weather system was still hovering over Madhya Pradesh, India, forecasting rain-thunderstorm for Karachi in the next 24 hours. It said that rain-thunderstorm with isolated heavy fall was likely at scattered places in Mirpurkhas, Hyderabad, Karachi, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, Sargodha, Faisalabad, Kalat, Nasirabad and Makran divisions, besides Islamabad and Kashmir.
Rain-thunderstorm is also expected at isolated places in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Upper Sindh, South Balochistan and FATA over the period. "A fresh westerly wave is now located over northern parts of Afghanistan and its adjoining areas. Moist currents are penetrating upper and central parts of the country," it said.
In the next 24 hours, it said that rain-thunderstorm with isolated heavy falls was expected at scattered places in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, FATA, Islamabad, Upper//Central Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir and at isolated places in lower Sindh and Northeast Balochistan. In the last 24 hours, maximum rainfall was recorded in Kotli as 97 mm, Kakul 88 mm, Balakot 61 mm, Saidu Sharif 45 mm, Lower Dir 43 mm, Muzaffarabad 23 mm, Malamjabba 17 mm and Garidupatta 10 mm.
Dalbandin was the hottest place with 46 degrees Celsius, Nokkundi and Panjgur 45, each, Sibbi and Dadu 44, each, Rahim Yar Khan and Sukkur 43, each. The Met office also issued a Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) warning for Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral, saying that rain bearing weather system was likely to persist over region from July 14 to 19. It said that the expected system had a potential to unleash GLOF/flash floods in the area. It alerted that the Pakistan Meteorological Department's pilot GLOF sites Bagrot, Bindogol and Golain valleys as well their surroundings were particularly at risk from the weather system.
It advised the local communities to stay alert and asked the concerned authorities to take precautionary measures ahead of any untoward natural calamity in the top mountainous region of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral. "Community leaders are requested to translate this Alert in Urdu and display it on notice board to provide information to all community members," it advised.