Rain With Snowfall Over Hills Forecasted For Most KP: PMC

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Peshawar: The Provincial Meteorological Center (PMC) Peshawar on Friday forecasted that rain with isolated thunderstorm and snowfall over the hills is likely to occur over Chitral, Lower & Upper Dir, Malakand, Bajaur, Buner, Swat, Shangla, Kohistan, Battagram, Torghar, Mansehra, Abbottabad, Haripur, Swabi, Mardan, Mohmand and  Khyber districts.

PMC stated that sporadic light rain and isolated thunderstorms is expected to occur over Nowshera, Charsadda, Peshawar, Kohat, Hangu, Orakzai, and Kurram districts.

Over Bannu, LakkiMarwat, Tank, Dera Ismail Khan, and North and South Waziristan districts; isolated drizzle is also likely to happen.

Over the past 24 hours, the majority of the province has had extremely chilly and partly overcast weather. However, light rain occurred in Dir, Mansehra, Swat, Nowshera, Bajaur, and Buner districts.

Rain Recorded (in mm): Dir 04, Balakot 03, Saidu Sharif 02, Kalam, Bajaur (Pashat) andBuner 01 (each), Kakul &Risalpur Trace (each).

The maximum and minimum temperatures recorded at different stations of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are as follows:

Stations Max. Temp(°C) Min. Temp(°C)
Peshawar City 19 06
Chitral 10 -02
Timergara 13 02
Dir 12 -01
Mirkhani 07 -02
Kalam 10 -07
Drosh 11 00
Saidu Sharif 14 00
Pattan 15 07
MalamJabba 03 -06
TakhtBhai 18 00
Kakul 11 02
Balakot 15 03
Parachinar 10 -04
Bannu 22 01
Cherat 10 03
D.I. Khan 22 07

Source: Provincial Meteorological Center

The lowest temperatures recorded in the province were -07°C in Kalam and Tirah valley of Khyber each and -06°C in Malam Jabba.

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