KARACHI: Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) has issued a weather advisory predicting heavy rains and thunderstorms across the province during the next 48 hours.
The SDMA has warned against heavy rainfall with wind and thunderstorm in Hyderabad, Larkana, Sukkur, Shaheed Benazirabad and Mirpur Khas divisions and Tando Muhammad Khan and Dadu districts.
The advisory addressed to the officials concerned to finalize arrangements to cope with the situation of urban flooding and to ensure safety of lives in their areas. Pakistan Meteorological Department (PDM) had earlier predicted a strong westerly wave likely to bring rain-wind and thunderstorm.
A westerly wave is likely to enter in the country and to grip upper and central parts on Sunday and may persist till Tuesday, Pakistan Meteorological Department said in a weather report.
Under the influence of this weather system, rain-wind-thunderstorm is expected in Quetta, Zhob, Ziarat, Chaman, Qila Saifullah, Sibbi, Barkhan, Kalat and Khuzdar in Balochistan, Shaheed Benazirabad, Jaccobabad, Sukkur and Larkana in upper Sindh from Saturday evening/night to Monday, the met office forecast.
Heavy rainfall may trigger landslides in the vulnerable areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit Baltistan and Kashmir on Monday and Tuesday, the weather department warned.
