City witnesses sunny Friday

LAHORE : The city witnessed a sunny day on Friday as maximum temperature settled a notch above at 13 degrees Celsius, after a month-long severe cold and foggy weather conditions across Punjab.

The skies are expected to remain clear today (Saturday) as well, and the maximum and minimum temperatures will hover around 13 and 9 degrees Celsius, said the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD). Friday’s minimum temperature was 9 degrees average for this time of the year while the maximum humidity was recorded at 69 percent. Blanketed by fog, Lahore and plains of Punjab remained in the grip of cold wave during last 30 days. According to a daily weather report issued by the PMD, dense fog is likely to continue in plain areas of Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and upper Sindh.