Pakistan Weather Update & Monsoon Alert (May 25 – May 31)

  • Extreme heatwave, west for the rescue!

  • Rain in the North after long time!

  • Karachi’s cloud returns

Temperature and Precipitation in late May

Temperature and Precipitation in late May

On May 8, PWP predicted that a strong heatwave would affect Sindh from the coming week of May. On May 15, it gripped the entire country and gradually intensified on May 16/May 17. This heatwave will continue till the end of May as written in Monsoon III. Though some decrease of 2°C to 5°C from current situation could occur in the northern areas while slight decrease would occur in the central and southern parts. Around 50°C was recorded in some parts of Sindh and adjoining Punjab while above 45°C was recorded in some areas of Punjab including Lahore. The heatwave would weaken by the first week of June but will remain till pre-monsoon starts in the country.

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Lahore suffers as mercury keeps rising

‘Pakistan under severe heatwave since 10 days’

It keeps getting hotter!

It keeps getting hotter!

The cultural hub of the country came close in setting a new all time high temperature on May 23 as the highest temperature in the month of May occurred in 1990 (23 years ago) that was 47.4 °C according to NOAA. On May 23, the severe heatwave that has engulfed much of Pakistan since mid of May caused the temperature to rise at 47 °C thus coming close but not breaking the monthly temperature.

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Portal Interactive: Tropics that affected Karachi and Other coasts of Pakistan

  •  This article have been shared by Waseem Ahmed from Karachi, Pakistan

TROPICS THAT AFFECTED KARACHI and OTHER COASTS OF PAKISTAN:

Tropical Effects on Karachi Detail

Arabian Sea, about 20 years ago was known to be a ‘Silent’ or ‘Quiet’ sea and formation of storms/cyclone in this part of north Indian Ocean was very rare. However in recent past it has been very active with producing some very strong or severe Tropical Systems and Monsoon Lows that caused large scale damages in many countries neighboring the Arabian Sea including Pakistan, Oman and India.

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Massive Tornado blasts its way through Oklahoma!

  • Major Oklahoma tornado after 1999 and 2003

  • 2011 U.S Tornado outbreak killed 150+ people

  • More low intensity tornadoes expected!

BREAKING-NEWS1Oklahoma has witnessed a mammoth tornado that was 3 kilometer wide packing winds of up to 320 kph, it has killed 91 people while 300 are injured. There is a forecast of more tornadoes in the affected areas though this tornado was not the strongest of all when compared to past tornado in U.S but its size is what has caused severe widespread destruction.

A TV Channel shows the approaching tornado

A TV Channel shows the approaching tornado

On the Enhanced Fujita Scale, it was a EF4 tornado, second most powerful category of tornado with winds up to 320 kph. On a regular Fujita Scale it was a F3 tornado.

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Pakistan bakes in Oven: Bricks for Monsoon 2013 placed!

“This is the third article related to the monsoon season of 2013 and it will be followed by many more articles”

As things heats up - Monsoon gets ready

As things heats up – Monsoon gets ready

The sub-continent is experiencing its first major heatwave of the season that is crucial for building up a normal monsoon season. It is worth noting that this year the western sub-continent was a under the grip of below normal temperatures due to the everlasting westerlies till April therefore it was feared that the region would miss out the heatwave but luckily it came on time and western Sub-continent heated up on the right time.

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