Lahore temp touches 32.4°C

LAHORE: Cloudy weather was observed in the provincial metropolis on Thursday while Met office predicted scattered rain during the next 24 hours.

Officials said continental air was prevailing over most parts of the country. A westerly wave is likely to approach western parts of Balochistan tonight and likely to persist till Saturday. They predicted rain thunderstorm with duststorm/ gusty winds was expected at isolated places in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamabad, upper Punjab (Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Gujranwala, Faisalabad and Lahore divisions), Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. Thursday’s lowest temperature was recorded at Astore where mercury dropped down to 01°C while in Lahore it was 17.2°C and maximum was 32.4°C.