KARACHI, PESHAWAR: Residents of Sindh’s port metropolis, who preserve an eye fixed out for short-lived winters all year long, proceed to reel underneath the prevailing chilly wave, which has seen the mercury drop to single digits as soon as once more.
With humidity ranges standing at 41% coupled with eight kilometres per hour winds from the northwest, the temperature within the metropolis was recorded at 9.5 levels Celsius.
That is the second time Karachi’s temperature has been recorded under the ten°C mark within the ongoing month. Beforehand, the Pakistan Meteorological Division (PMD) had recorded the minimal temperature on the Jinnah Terminal at 9.1°C.
Earlier this week, the Met Workplace had forecast intermittent robust winds within the metropolis, with a drop of three°C to 4°C at night time in southeastern Sindh.
It additionally mentioned that the temperature within the higher and central components of Sindh was prone to stay 3°C to five°C decrease than regular.
Nonetheless, the nation’s monetary hub will not be the one metropolis experiencing chilly climate, because the temperature has additionally dropped in numerous areas of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
In Balochistan’s capital Quetta, the minimal temperature was recorded at -4°C. Different cities within the province with low mercury embrace Kalat (-5°C), Nokundi (1°C), Sibi (3°C), Gwadar and Jiwani (8°C) and Turbat (9°C).
In the meantime, in KP, with partially cloudy climate and humidity ranges of 92%, the minimal temperature recorded in Peshawar was 1°C.
Poor AQI
The prevailing chilly wave can be coupled with poor air high quality index (AQI) in Karachi and Lahore — the nation’s largest cities respectively.
Lahore, which has been battling extreme smog for a number of weeks now, emerged because the second most polluted metropolis on this planet with Swiss air high quality monitor IQAir displaying town’s AQI at “hazardous” 303.
The Punjab’s capital was solely topped by India’s New Delhi whose AQI was recorded at 790 at round 9:50am.
Karachi then again was ranked because the sixth most polluted metropolis with an AQI of 199 — which is termed “unhealthy” by the Swiss monitor.