Rain respite from muggy weather

LAHORE: After hot and humid day, rain-thunderstorm hit the provincial metropolis in the evening on Wednesday, changing the weather while Met Office predicted similar weather conditions for the next 24 hours. The rainwater inundated all major roads, residential and commercial localities, graveyards, bus stands and public parks. Almost 300 feeders of Lesco were also closed due to the continuous rain, depriving more than 30 per cent of the City population from electricity.

Moreover, people complained that majority of the XENs and SDOs in Lesco didn’t attend calls made on their mobile phones printed on the electricity bills, on which, people started calling Lesco’s top management to register their complaints.

As there was no electricity, many tube-wells of Wasa also remained off. The Wasa MD said that till evening all the 22 sore points, including Laxmi Chowk, Haji Camp, Firdous Market, Kashmir Road, GPO Chowk, Sheranwala Gate, Aik Moriya Pull, Mozang, Qartaba Chowk, Lawrance Road and Ichhra, were cleared from rainwater. The Met officials said that seasonal low lies over western Balochistan.

Moist currents are penetrating eastern and upper parts of the country. They predicted that rain-wind-thundershower is expected in upper Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, lower Sindh, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. Hot and humid weather is expected elsewhere in the country. Rainfall was also recorded in Mandi Bahauddin, 25mm, Islamabad airport, 22, Joharabad, 11, Gujrat, 1, Kotli, 5, Cherat, 2, Kalam, Saidu Sharif, Bannu, 1 and Gupis, 2mm. Wednesday's highest temperature was recorded in Sibbi where the mercury reached 47°C while in Lahore it was 37.2°C and lowest was 28.7°C.