Mainly hot and dry weather is expected in most parts of the country. However, rain with wind and thunderstorm with isolated hailstorm at isolated places is likely in south Punjab, upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and northeast Balochistan.
Temperature of some major cities recorded. Islamabad twenty-four degree centigrade, Lahore and Karachi thirty, Peshawar twenty-seven, Quetta twenty-two, Gilgit and Murree fifteen and Muzaffarabad twenty-one degree centigrade. According to weather forecast of Met Office for Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, partly cloudy weather is expected in Srinagar, Jammu, Pulwama, Anantnag and Baramula, Shopian and Leh. Temperature recorded. Srinagar, Pulwama and Baramula sixteen degree centigrade, Jammu twenty-five, Leh six, Anantnag and Shopian fifteen degree centigrade. On the other hand the Provincial Meteorological Center Peshawar on Friday predicted that hot and dry weather is expected in most districts of the province while very hot in southern districts.
However, it said that cloudy weather with chances of isolated rain-wind and thunderstorm is likely to occur over Abbottabad, Haripur, Mansehra, Battagram, Torghar, Kohistan, Malakand, Bunner, Shangla, Swat, Chitral, Upper Dir, Lower Dir, Kohat, Hangu, Karak, Bannu , Lakki Marwat, D.I Khan, Tank and North/South Waziristan districts in the evening and night. During the last 24 hours weather remained hot and dry over most districts of the province while very hot over southern districts. Rain recorded (in mm): Nil.—INP
