{"id":69949,"date":"2020-09-01T17:02:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T12:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=69949"},"modified":"2020-09-01T17:02:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T12:02:38","slug":"pmd-issues-very-heavy-rainfall-prediction-for-northern-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pmd-issues-very-heavy-rainfall-prediction-for-northern-areas.html","title":{"rendered":"PMD issues &#8216;very heavy rainfall&#8217; prediction for northern areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Monday issued a \u2018significant flood warning\u2019 for the northern parts of the country; with \u2018heavy to very-heavy rainfall\u2019 predicted for the catchment areas of the Kabul River and the hill torrents of Dera Ghazi Khan (DG Khan) division, according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/karachi-rain-cm-sindh-orders-survey-to-assess-damages-for-repair-compensation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Karachi Rain: CM Sindh orders survey to assess damages for repair, compensation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the latest hydro-meteorological situation, the monsoon downpour has become evidently active over the Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) regions, and is expected to produce widespread thunderstorm and heavy rainfall. The PMD&#8217;s Flood Forecasting Division has warned that the existing weather is expected to persist over the mentioned areas in the next 48 hours and medium to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-announce-plan-permanently-resolve-karachi-flooding-issues.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">high-flooding<\/a> situation can arise owing to the heavy rainfalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-expand-underground-rainwater-storage-other-cities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Govt to expand underground rainwater storage project to other cities of Punjab<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In regards to the flood warning, the department has advised the authorities concerned to remain alert and vigilant during the next two days, apart from taking effective precautionary measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Monday issued a \u2018significant flood warning\u2019 for the northern parts of the country; with \u2018heavy to very-heavy rainfall\u2019 predicted for the catchment areas of the Kabul River and the hill torrents of Dera Ghazi Khan (DG Khan) division, according to news sources. Read: Karachi Rain: CM Sindh orders survey to assess damages for repair, compensation As per the latest hydro-meteorological situation, the monsoon downpour has become evidently active over the Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) regions, and is expected to produce widespread thunderstorm and heavy rainfall. The PMD&#8217;s Flood Forecasting Division has warned that the existing weather is expected to persist over the mentioned areas in the next 48 hours and medium to high-flooding situation can arise owing to the heavy rainfalls. Read: Govt to expand underground rainwater storage project to other cities of Punjab In regards to the flood warning, the department has advised the authorities concerned to remain alert and vigilant during the next two days, apart from taking effective precautionary measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":69188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181,15017],"tags":[38284,36692,38283],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"category-notices-announcements","9":"tag-flood-warning","10":"tag-heavy-rains","11":"tag-pakistan-meteorological-department-pmd","12":"cat-15181-id","13":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PMD issues &#039;very heavy rainfall&#039; 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