LAHORE: The weeklong chill in the country’s plains began to ebb away with bright sunshine on Friday, but the meteorological department’s forecast for next week includes heavy rain and snowfall in the northern areas...
Isolated heavy rain may cause flash floods in certain streams of Balochistan, the weather advisory cautions...
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: Many cities in the country on Thursday received rain and the Met department warned of a week-long spell of rains, heavy to very heavy at places, from Friday (today) that may cause urban flooding and landsliding in the affected areas...
In its latest forecast, the Met department says moderate monsoon currents from the Arabian Sea, which are continuously penetrating northeastern parts, are likely to strengthen in upper parts of...
ISLAMABAD: Extreme weather in Rawalpindi and Islamabad has changed the shopping pattern this Ramazan, and even the corporate brands are keeping their outlets open late at night ignoring the official timings...
“We always used to do shopping during the day as it’s easy because of limited traffic and the fact that male members of the family are at work,” said Sadaf Zehra, a resident of Rawalpindi...
RAWALPINDI: Cricket fans in Rawalpindi hope the T20 International series between Pakistan and New Zealand is not dampened by inclement weather on Thursday when both the teams enter the ground for the fourth match of the five-game series...
After the first three games in Lahore, the action shifts to Rawalpindi for the last two T20s...
LOS ANGELES: Nasa on Saturday launched a next-generation satellite into space designed to monitor weather around the world and help improve forecasts...
The satellite, called the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1), is a joint venture between the US space agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which provides weather reports and forecasts...
”The Met Office has predicted similar conditions in the upcoming month of June and the first week...
The western winds not only made the weather conditions pleasant in the twin cities with traces of rainfall in Rawalpindi on Friday but many areas of north and west of the country received rainfall...
ISLAMABAD: The thick blanket of clouds over most of the Potohar region – including Islamabad and Rawalpindi – resulted in a drop in daytime temperatures, but the clouds drifted east without any precipitation...
The cold, dry weather conditions are likely to continue for another 10 days...
At 6:42 on Saturday evening, the United States launched a revolutionary new weather satellite into space from Cape Canaveral, Florida...
The weather satellites that silently monitor the atmosphere over North America are approaching the end of their life spans...
RAWALPINDI: The governing body of Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) on Friday approved Rs3...
395bn have been allocated for development work...
- Pakistan’s national income per capita has doubled since 1990; with income poverty declining nearly three times since 2000- The share of Foreign Direct Investment in the economy has fluctuated in the past 30 years; in 2013 it was back at the 1990 level- If Pakistan is to meet the SDGs, there is considerable scope to improve the role of partnershipsNegotiating the path towards sustainable development is not easy for any country acting...
RAWALPINDI: Police arrested a couple for kidnapping a three-day-old baby from outside a government hospital in the RA Bazaar area over a week ago and recovered the infant on Friday...