Met Warning: High temperatures up flood fear

High temperatures, rapid glacier melting rate and heavy rains might lead to glacial lake flooding in these areas


APP August 04, 2017
Villages, fields surrounding the embankment flooded with water. PHOTO: AFP

ISLAMABAD: The Met Office has issued an alert for Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral regions, forecasting a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF). “The persistent heat wave conditions in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral are likely to increase by more than five-degree centigrade for the next three or four days,” the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) said. “High temperatures, rapid glacier melting rate and heavy rains might lead to glacial lake flooding in these areas,” it cautioned.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 4th, 2017.

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