Hot weather to prevail in most parts of the country: PMD

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has issued a warning regarding the prevalence of extremely hot and humid weather conditions in southern parts of the country in the next two days.

Continental air is prevailing over most parts of the country while a shallow westerly wave is also present over northern parts of the country, the PMD stated in its daily weather update.

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The weather forecast department added that on Friday, mainly hot weather is expected in most areas of the country, while very hot with dust-raising winds/gusty winds are likely in southern parts.

However, rain-thunderstorm is expected at isolated places in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Kashmir, while windstorm/gusty winds with isolated rain-thunderstorms may occur in upper Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pothohar region and northeast Punjab. 

TEMPERATURES OF MAJOR CITIES RECORDED THIS MORNING:

Islamabad and Murree twenty degrees centigrade, Lahore and Karachi thirty, Peshawar twenty-five, Quetta seventeen, Gilgit eighteen and Muzaffarabad twenty-two degree centigrade.