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Pakistan registers ‘wettest April’ in more than 60 years: Report

Jake Miller Published May 4, 2024
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Pakistan record its “wettest April since 1961,” receiving more than twice as much rain as usual for the month, the country’s weather agency said in a report.

April rainfall was recorded at 59.3 millimeters, “excessively above” the normal average of 22.5 millimeters, Pakistan’s metrology department said late Friday in its monthly climate report.

There were at least 144 deaths in thunderstorms and house collapses due to heavy rains in what the report said was the “wettest April since 1961.”

🛑 #BREAKING : Torrential #rain (microburst) with strong thunder and stormy winds in different areas of #Lahore, #Pakistan.

⚡ Max Wind Gust: 84 km/hr
⚡ Rain Rate: 288 mm/hr

More rain forecasted in coming days! pic.twitter.com/LdRwx2rHck

— PakWeather.com (@Pak_Weather) April 26, 2024

Pakistan is increasingly vulnerable to unpredictable weather, as well as often destructive monsoon rains that usually arrive in July.

In the summer of 2022, a third of Pakistan was submerged by unprecedented monsoon rains that displaced millions of people and cost the country $30 billion in damage and economic losses, according to a World Bank estimate.

Rain all night and strong winds in the morning made the weather cold ❄️ Islamabad, Pakistan pic.twitter.com/AwxCW6LtKl

— Tabassum Yaqub (@TabassumYaqub) April 29, 2024

“Climate change is a major factor that is influencing the erratic weather patterns in our region,” Zaheer Ahmad Babar, spokesperson for the Pakistan Meteorological Department, said while commenting on the report.

While much of Asia is sweltering dure to heat waves, Pakistan’s national monthly temperature for April was 23.67 degrees Celsius (74 degrees Fahrenheit) 0.87 degrees lower than the average of 24.54, the report noted.

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