The swirling tropical cyclone storm-'Vayu' is likely to unleash widespread windstorm with heavy rainfall in Sindh on Thursday and Friday, the Met Office said on Tuesday. The Sindh fishermen should avoid voyages into the deep sea from Wednesday evening until the storm dissipates most likely on Friday evening. The sea is likely to remain rough to very rough with the storm.
The sea breeze is likely to remain cut off on Thursday and Friday because of disturbed marine weather and may trigger heat wave like conditions in coastal areas of Sindh including Karachi, it said, adding that temperature in Karachi is expected to scale up to 40 degrees Celsius with 60 percent humidity during the period.
The stormy weather is expected to unleash widespread dust-thunder-showers with an isolated heavy falls in Thatta, Badin and Tharparkar districts on Thursday and Friday. However, the rest of Sindh is likely to receive scattered and isolated dust-thundershowers during the period, it said. The Tropical Cyclone "Vayu", spotted presently at a distance about 1150 kilometres south of Karachi coast, is swirling with gusty winds at a speed of between 80 kilometers and 90 kilometers.
"The system is likely to intensify further into a Severe Tropical Cyclone by evening today and will continue to move in northerly direction during next 24 hours," it said.
The storm is now expected to grow into a Severe Tropical Cyclone with changing its direction to the northward in the next 24 hours, the Met Office said on Tuesday. It said that the authorities of Sindh concerned should remain alert during coming days to cope with the aftermaths of 'Vayu'.
Maximum temperature in the last 24 hours was recorded in Sibbi as 48 degrees Celsius, Jaccobabad and Noorpur Thal 47, each, Turbat, Dadu and Bahawalnagar 46, each, Lahore and Faisalabad 44, each, Multan 43, Hyderabad 41, Islamabad 38, Peshawar 37, Karachi 36, Quetta 31, Muzaffarabad 34, and Gilgit 19. Murree received 22mm of rainfall, Astore 17 mm, Bunji 8mm, Saidu Sharif 7mm, Malamjabba and Pattan 6mm, each.
In the next 24 hours: Mainly hot and dry weather is expected in the most parts of the country. However, a very hot weather may strike eastern Balochistan, Sindh and central and southern Punjab. An isolated dust-thunderstorm with rain is expected in Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, Kohat, Rawalpindi divisions, besides Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir.
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