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Sunday, January 09, 2011
Cold, foggy weather disrupt routine life
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: With the Met Office predicting no considerable change in weather for another week, dense fog is likely to continue disrupting routine life, road, rail and air traffic in the country. Foggy conditions are likely to prevail for the next few days in the plains of Punjab, upper Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Met Department has forecast cold and dry weather in the country in the next 24 hours. Light rain/snowfall is expected at isolated places in Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir, however. Various cities, including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Jhelum, Peshawar, Bahawalpur, Multan, Lahore, Sukkur and Faisalabad, were enveloped by fog on Saturday. Plains experienced lower temperature while residents of mountainous areas had to face severe cold. Temperature in Hunza dipped to minus 9, Kalat and Kalam minus 8, Skardu minus 6 and Quetta minus 4 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature in Islamabad was 2 degrees Celsius, Lahore 3, Karachi 8, Peshawar 2, Quetta minus 8, Multan 5, Murree 1 and Faisalabad 6 degrees Celsius. Visibility reduced to 20 metres in Multan and Peshawar on Friday night that prompted the motorway authorities to warn travellers to be careful while moving from one place to the other. The Pakistan Railways and the CAA also made necessary changes in trains’ and flights’ schedules due to the foggy weather. As per reports, the Lahore airport operated flights but the Peshawar airport had to close its operations while the Benazir Bhutto International Airport also suspended its flight operations for 8-10 hours. app
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk