City experiences yet another sizzling day

LAHORE : Sunny to partly cloudy and very hot weather was recorded in the city as mercury reached 44°C here on Saturday while Met office warned that windstorm/dust-thunderstorm/hailstorm/heavyfalls and lightning may damage loose structures like (electric poles, trees, vehicles and solar panels etc) till16 June.

Met officials said a westerly wave was affecting upper/central parts of the country and likely to persist during next two days. They predicted that mainly hot and dry weather was expected in most parts of the country while very hot in plain areas. However, partly cloudy weather with dust-storm-rain/thundershower was likely at isolated places in North-East/South Punjab, upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, upper/South-East Sindh, North-East Balochistan, Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan.

Rainfall was recorded in several cities including Gujrat, Mangla, Sialkot, Islamabad, Murree, Mir Khani, Kalam, Dir, Drosh, Rawalakot and Gupis.

Saturday’s highest maximum temperature was recorded at Turbat and Pasni where mercury reached 49°C.

Meanwhile, the average AQI in the city was 112 while the PM2.5 concentration was 8 times the World Health Organisation (WHO) annual PM2.5 guideline value.