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Three to four wet spells likely this month

By Our Staff Reporter 2017-03-02
ISLAMABAD: The Met Office has forecast three to four rain spells in March, but also announced that there will be no rain on Sunday in Lahore, the venue for the Pakistan Super League (PSL) final.

A westerly wave is present at the upper pans of the country and is likely to persist up to Thursday evening.

The Met Office has predicted dry weather for the final match day, and the daytime temperature will be between 260 and 280, and after sunset it will be between 170 and 220.

On Wednesday, the residents of Islamabad witnessed an unusually pleasant weather when the federal capital received heavy rain with hailstorm. The three mm rainfall was heavy for a small period of time, and hailstones fell over some pans of Islamabad including I-8, Faizabad, Melody, etc.

Thunderstorm is expected at isolated places in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, Kohat divisions, Fata, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir on Thursday too.

The Met Office has also said that rain and snowfall is expected during the month of March, mainly due to neutral global weather pattern such as the North Atlantic Oscillations (NAO), El Nino and Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD).

`As the prevailing atmospheric condition was neutral, three to four weather systems are likely to pass across the country,` the Met depanment said.

It will result in slightly above normal rainfall over upper KP, GB, AJK, northern pans of Punjab and normal rainfall in rest of the country. At the same time snowfall is also expected over high mountains in March.

Thunder and hailstorms accompanied by gusty winds are also likely to occur at isolated places in the country.

The Met Office has estimated that precipitation is likely to remain normal in April.