Twin cities experience hottest day

ISLAMABAD: Residents of Rawalpindi and Islamabad experienced the hottest day of the ongoing summer season on Sunday as the mercury rose to 44 degrees Celsius, confining people indoors.

However, the PMD has predicted a spell of significant rain with gusty winds in upper and central parts of the country.

Previously, citizens of Turbat sweltered through the hottest day recorded in Pakistan’s history, as the mercury shot up to 53.5°C on Sunday.

The temperature equalled the one measured on May 27, 2010 in Mohenjo Daro which broke a 12-year record – 53°C in Larkana on May 31, 1998.



According to a senior meteorologist at the Met Department, the previous highest temperature recorded in Turbat was 52°C on May 30, 2009. He said the temperature in Turbat kept fluctuating between 50°C and 52°C over the past few days, but peaked on Sunday.

He predicted that the current heat wave would persist across the country for the next three to four days in interior Sindh, southern Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.Weather in these parts of the country is expected to remain very hot and dry, he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 5^th, 2017.