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Due to humidity levels ranging between 40 and 50%, coupled with high temperature, the heat indices recorded in the city were above 50 °C during these days. The highest temperature during this heatwave was 45 °C (reached first time since 8 June 2000, when the temperature had soared to 45.5 °C), recorded on 20 June 2015, while the minimum ...
The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) (Urdu: محکمہ موسمیات پاکستان, also known as Pakistan Met Office [3] [4]), is an autonomous and independent institution tasked with providing weather forecasts and public warnings concerning weather for protection, safety and general information.
Pakistan has seen many floods, the worst and most destructive is the recent 2010 Pakistan floods, other floods which caused destruction in the history of Pakistan, include the flood of 1950, which killed 2910 people; on 1 July 1977 heavy rains and flooding in Karachi, killed 248 people, according to Pakistan meteorological department 207 ...
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The record breaking rain fell in just 10 hours. It was the heaviest rainfall in Pakistan during the past 100 years . [20] [21] The following is the Monsoon rainfall in Islamabad since 2006 based on the data from Pakistan Meteorological Department. [22] In 2006, a total of 962 millimetres (37.9 in) rain was recorded. [22]
Humidity levels decline as compared to other months. The highest monthly rainfall recorded was 39.9 millimetres (1.57 in) in 1963; [1] and the heaviest rainfall recorded in a 24-hour period was 28 millimetres (1.1 in) on 25 May 2003. [1] On 2 May 2005, a storm covered the entire city with a blanket of dust that lasted for many days. [13]
Its location allows it to experience the maximum wind speed of the storm relative to its twin city Islamabad. On 13 October 2006, wind gusts from a powerful thunderstorm reported by Pakistan Meteorological Department to have reached 167 kilometres per hour (104 mph). [5]
Like most of the southern slopes of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dir has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa).Owing to the city's exposed location, rainfall from frontal cyclones from the west is heavier than in any other part of Pakistan, and their passage, as well as very penetrative monsoonal periods, are usually accompanied by heavy thunderstorms.