Moderate to heavy rains soaked Karachi after the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Tuesday forecast downpours in the port city until Wednesday.
Rain lashed various parts of the megalopolis, including Saddar, Gurumandir, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, DHA, Gulistan-e-Johar, Baldia Town, Shershah and Hassan Square.
The Met Office said due to a weather system’s moving towards Gulf of Kutch, several districts in Sindh may experience light to moderate rain on Tuesday and Wednesday.
“Yesterday’s well-marked low pressure area over Gulf of Cambay and adjoining Gujrat, India, now lies over Saurashtra, Gujrat, India, and adjoining areas. It is likely to move further West-Southwestwards and emerge into Northeast Arabian sea along Gulf of Kutch.
“Under its influence, wind-thunderstorm, rain of light to moderate intensity is likely in Shaheed Benazirabad, Nosheroferoz, Hyderabad, Jamshoro, Tando Muhammad Khan, Tando Allayar, Umerkot, Mirpurkhas, Thatta, Sujawal, Mityari Tharparker and Badin districts and Karachi division today and tomorrow,” the weather advisory department said.
It said hot and dry weather was likely to prevail elsewhere in the province. The PMD has advised fishermen not to venture in deep sea during forecast period.
“Windstorm and lightning may damage weak structures like roof and wall of Kacha houses, electric poles, bill boards, vehicles and solar panels during the forecast period,” it said.
Meanwhile, the flight operation at the Karachi airport was hampered owing to heavy rains in the city as many international and local flights could not landed on the airport and delayed, the airport sources said.
According the airport sources, a cargo flight coming from Vietnam could not be landed at the airport.
Similarly, a local flight PK-305 coming from Lahore also not landed at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport due to heavy showers.
The flight schedule also disturbed owing to torrential rains as the flights from Karachi to Jeddah and Islamabad were delayed.
On the other hand, a local flight PK-536 heading to Sukker from Karachi was cancelled owing to the downpours.
The airport sources apprised that a flight from Lahore to Karachi, PK-305 was landed to Sukkur after it diverted to interior Sindh.
Moreover, an international flight coming from Bahrain could not be landed at the airport.
Earlier, after the latest spell of rain, severe traffic jams were reported in multiple areas of Karachi, leaving commuters stranded for hours.