‘Very high’ flood expected in River Jhelum: FFC

Medium to high flood is likely in nullahs of rivers Chenab and Ravi

ISLAMABAD:

The Federal Flood Commission (FFC) has said that “high to very high flood” is expected in River Jhelum (upstream Mangla) and in River Chenab at Marala, Khanki and Qadirabad Headworks.

It further said that medium to high flood is likely in the nullahs of rivers Chenab and Ravi, besides, low to medium floods in River Indus at Tarbela (upstream) during Wednesday to Friday.

According to daily FFC report on Tuesday, currently all main rivers including Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi and Sutlej are discharging "normal flows" and there is no riverine flood situation in the country.

The Combined Live Storage of major reservoirs of Tarbela, Mangla and Chashma is 6.608 MAF which is 49% of total value of 13.516 MAF.

Moderate moist currents from Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal (India) are penetrating into upper parts of the country up to 5,000 feet whereas Monday’s low-pressure area over Northwestern Madhya Pradesh (India) has weakened.

Trough of westerly wave continues to persist over northern parts of Afghanistan with season allow continues to prevail over Northern Balochistan.

Flood Forecasting Division (FFD), Lahore has predicted scattered thunderstorm and rain of moderate intensity with isolated heavy falls over Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Lahore, Faisalabad and DG Khan divisions of Punjab including upper catchments of all main rivers during the next 24 hours.

Isolated thunderstorm/rain may also occur over Sahiwal, Multan and Bahawalpur divisions of Punjab and Peshawar, Kohat, Bannu and DI Khan divisions of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa during this period.

Fairly widespread thunderstorm/rain of moderate to heavy intensity with isolated very heavy falls and one or two extremely heavy falls are expected over Northern and Northeastern Punjab including upper catchments of all main rivers during the next 72 hours.

Scattered thunderstorm/rain with one or two heavy falls may also occur over DG Khan and Peshawar, Kohat, Banu and DI Khan during the said period.