Cold snap: Temperatures set to drop in parts of the country

100 people killed in India due to severe weather system.

ISLAMABAD:

The bitter cold snap that has engulfed parts of the country is set to take a turn for the worse as the temperature is likely to drop further in the next few days, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD).

“The fog and cold is yet to increase in different parts of country, especially [in] different parts of Punjab,” Director General PMD Arif Mehmood told The Express Tribune.

Mehmood said, “Lahore, Faislabad, Sahiwal and Gujranwala and [other] connected cities would see a decrease in temperature in the coming days.”

Replying to a question about the severity of the weather compared to the current cold snap in India, which has claimed over 100 lives, he said: “I cannot compare the weather of [India] with Pakistan, but the cold [temperature] is the same as it has been here in the previous years.”



According to reports, over 100 people have been killed India by severe weather system which has gripped the country over the past few days.

New Delhi witnessed a maximum temperature of 9.8 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, which is the lowest since records began in 1969.

Elaborating, Mehmood said that continental air is prevailing over most parts of Pakistan.

According to the Met Office, cold and dry weather is expected in most parts of the country. However, partly cloudy conditions with isolated light rain and snow may occur in the Malakand division and Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B), for the most part.

Severe cold wave will continue to prevail over the northern parts of Balochistan, Khyber-Pukhtunkwa and G-B.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 4^th, 2013.