Met advises farmers to protect crop from rains

The Met Office on Friday asked the farmers to make plans for crops protection against the negative impacts of the 'unprecedented' continuing rains in the country.
It said that the growers should be vigilant keeping in view the big rainy spell in the country especially the cotton crops. It also said that the standing crops should be cultivated at earliest so that the production loss could be scaled back to a greater extent.
The Met had forecast rain with dust-thunderstorm in parts of the country from the last Thursday night to next Tuesday. It said that the weather is likely to remain unstable in Pakistan during Thursday night to Tuesday, producing scattered rains with dust-thunderstorm in places of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Kashmir and at a few places of Sindh and northeast Balochistan.
It said that scattered dust-thunderstorm with rain is expected in places and with intervals in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Rawalpindi, Jhelum, Chakwal, Attock, Mianwali, Sargodha, Bhakkar, Layyah, Khushab, M B Din, Hafizabad, Gujaranwala, Gujrat, Sialkot, Narowal, Shiekupura, Lahore, Kasur, Faisalabad, Jhang, T.T.Singh, Sahiwal, Okara, Islamabad, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan from Thursday (night) to Monday/Tuesday.
Dust-thunderstorm with rain is also expected in Quetta, Zhob, Harnai, Barkhan, Dera Bugti, DG Khan, Rajanpur, Multan, Khanewal, R Y khan, Bahwalnagar, Bahawalpur, Sukkur, Larkana, Jacobabad, Shaheed Banazirabad during Friday and Saturday, it said.
Dust-thunderstorm with rain is also expected in Mirpurkhas, Badin and Hyderabad on Monday. In the next 24 hours, Karachi's weather is likely to remain partly cloudy with temperature up to 36 degrees Celsius and humidity up to 80 percent in the morning hours and 65 percent in the evening hours.