The Met Office has forecast rain and dust-thunderstorm with gusty winds for some Upper and central parts of the country during the current week. It said that a weather system is expected to enter Pakistan to trigger rainy weather with gusty winds scattered places of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, FATA, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir until Friday with intermittent spells.
Scattered places in Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Gujranwala, Lahore and Faisalabad Divisions and Islamabad are also expected to receive rain and dust-thunderstorm with gusty winds until Friday. Rain/dust-thunderstorms with gusty winds are likely to strike isolated places in Quetta, Zhob, D G Khan, Multan and Sahiwal Divisions on Thursday as well. The Met said that the current heat waves will end with the fresh rainy weather that grips the country. A few hailstorm spells are also likely to occur in sub-mountainous areas of Punjab besides Hazara Division and Kashmir over the period.
Heat Wave: The Met alerted citizens to a continuing spell of hot weather in Karachi with a maximum humidity up to 80 percent and scorching temperature to 36 degrees Celsius on June 8 and June 9. Partly cloudy weather with chances of drizzle is likely to grip the city's horizons on Thursday.
In the next 24 hours: Hot and dry weather is expected in the most parts of the country. However, rain-thunderstorm with gusty winds is expected at scattered places in Multan, Sahiwal, D G Khan, D.I Khan, Bahawalpur, Lahore, Sargodha and Faisalabad Divisions besides Kashmir, while at isolated places in Quetta, Zhob, Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, Kohat, Bannu and Rawalpindi Divisions, FATA, Islamabad and Gilgit-Baltistan. Sibbi was the hottest place in the country with a maximum 49 degrees Celsius, flowed by Dadu, Jacobabad and Turbat 46, each, Bhakkar, Noorpur Thal, Mianwali, D.I. Khan 45, each. In the last 24 hours.