ISLAMABAD: The International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank will finance Pakistan’s hydro-meteorological and climate services project with a soft loan of $135 million to strengthen the government’s capacity to deliver reliable and timely weather, hydrological and climate information and services to user departments and communities...
The present capability of the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) allows it...
KARACHI: Soaring temperatures claimed two lives in the city on Friday amid a forecast of a hotter weather in the next two days, with mercury levels expected to rise up to 40 degrees Celsius...
Earlier, the Pakistan Meteorological Department had issued a warning of rising temperatures in Karachi amid the already hot weather being experienced throughout Sindh...
KARACHI: Very hot and dry weather is likely to prevail in the city on Wednesday, the Meteorological department has said...
According to a Met department official, the forecast for the heatwave was for three days from May 5 to 7...
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday announced that the final of the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2023 at the Gaddafi Stadium Lahore will be played on Saturday (March 18) instead of Sunday (March 19) due to “bad weather forecast”...
“As such, and on the basis of available information about bad weather forecast, it is a sensible and proactive approach that we use the off-day and play the final on Saturday, and utilise Sunday...
LAHORE: The punishing heatwave baking the plains of the country intensified on Saturday as the meteorological department said temperatures could rise further in the next two to three days...
But there were some refreshing breaks against the harsh weather mainly in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and upper parts of the country as intervening westerly waves generated mild weather through rain and dust storms...
The cold, dry weather conditions are likely to continue for another 10 days...
Apart from a spell of rain at the start of the month, December has been dry – contrary to traditional weather patterns – and experts say this is because of the global pattern...
KARACHI: The Meteorological department has forecast hot and dry weather for next two days as temperature rose further to 39...
“It’s the dry continental air that has landed across the country blocking sea breeze and causing rise in temperature in the city,” said Sardar Sarfaraz of the Met department, adding that usually the weather started getting warm in Karachi by the end of March...
BEIJING: China on Monday lowered last year’s growth figure, already the weakest in a quarter-century, days after worries about slowing expansion in the world’s second-largest economy caused global stock market havoc...
The bank slashed its forecast for growth in the Philippines to 6...
The Chairman of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Maj Gen Asghar Nawaz, said at a press conference here on Friday that ensuring fair verification of claims and providing relief in coming days when the weather conditions were set to deteriorate would be a serious challenge...
The growth forecast for next year has been revised downward half a percentage point, from 4...
Weather remained cloudy to partly cloudy in Lahore on Wednesday and the Met department said the current spell was likely to produce scattered rain with snowfall over the hills in upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Fata, north Punjab, Islamabad, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir over the next 24 hours...
The ongoing spell of rain and snow will continue for a couple of days, lowering the temperature by two to three degrees Celsius...
PARIS: The International Energy Agency (IEA) on Wednesday cut its supply forecast for non-Opec countries, citing downturns in North America and the “worsening conflict” in Yemen...
The Paris-based agency cut its 2015 forecast for non-Opec output by 120,000 barrels a day to 630,000 bpd “on the back of a slightly more negative outlook for the US LTO (light tight oil) production and Canadian non-oil sands output, and of the fallout from...
KARACHI: Various parts of the city, especially district East, received some rain on Monday afternoon which brought relief for residents of the city from hot weather...
The weatherman predicted similar weather for Tuesday...
Many city roads inundated by rainwater, causing severe traffic jamsResponding to Dawn’s queries, the Met official said that Tuesday’s rain was just the side effect of the monsoon weather system coming from India, which was due to enter south-eastern parts of Pakistan on late Tuesday night and the actual rains owing to that system were expected to begin on Wednesday and could continue for a couple of days...
He said the Mumbai rain was...