PMD forecasts another rain spell in northern area

RAWALPINDI: Another spell of rain has been forecast by the Pakistan Meteoro­logical Department in the northern parts of the country, and it is going to be a wet weekend from Saturday night till Monday morning.

The National Disaster Management Authority has advised the provincial and district governments to make necessary arrangements in this regard.

The Pakistan Meteo­logical Department has forecast that a westerly wave is expected to reach the northwestern parts of the country in the evening of the 14th of March and may persist till the 16th of March.

The districts where cloudy to cloudy weather conditions with chances of moderate rain, wind, and thunderstorms, along with snowfall over high mountains (with isolated hailstorms), may prevail are Chitral, Dir, Swat, Kohistan, Shangla, Battgram, Buner, Malakand, Mansehra, Abbottabad, Haripur, Khyber, Mohmand, Peshawar, Bannu, Swabi, Mardan, Charsadda, Nowshera, Bajaur, Orakzai, Kurram, Kohat, Hangu, D.I. Khan, Zhob, Barkhan, Chaman, Ziarat, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Kashmir

It stated that rain, wind, and thunderstorms (with isolated hailstorms) may prevail in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Murree, Galliyat, Attock, Jhelum, Chak­wal, Talagang, Gujranwala, Hafizabad, Wazirabad, Sargodha, Mianwali, Sheikhupura, Gujrat, Khushab, Mandi Bahauddin, Lahore, Sialkot, Narowal, Faisalabad, Jhang, Chiniot, Bhakkar, Layyah, Dera Ghazi Khan, and surrounding areas from Saturday night till Monday morning, with occasional gaps.