Dry weather is expected in most plain areas of the country. However, rain-wind and thun-derstorm (with hailstorm) is likely in upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Potohar region, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. Isolated heavy falls are also expected during the period. Temperature of some major cities recorded. Islamabad thirteen degree centigrade, Lahore sixteen, Karachi, twenty-four, Peshawar fifteen, Quetta eight, Gilgit and Muzaffarabad twelve and Murree four degree centigrade. Ac-cording to Met Office forecast for Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, partly cloudy weather with chances of rain-wind and thunder-storm is expected in Srinagar, Leh, Pulwama, An-antnag, Shopian and Baramulla while partly cloudy in Jammu. Temperature recorded. Srinagar, Pul-wama, Shopian and Baramulla four degree centi-grade, Jammu twelve, Leh minus two and Anantnag five degree centigrade. Meanwhile The Provincial Meteorological Center Peshawar on Tuesday pre-dicted mainly partly cloudy to cloudy weather in most districts of the province.
However, it said that isolated rain-thunderstorm with gusty winds is likely to occur over Chitral, Lower & Upper Dir, Malakand, Buner, Swat, Shangla, Kohistan, Battagram, Torghar, Mansehra, Abbottabad, Haripur, Swabi, Mardan, Nowshera, Peshawar, Charsadda, Bajaur, Mohmand, Khyber, Orakzai, Hangu, Kurram, Karak, Kohat.—INP