The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) intends to buy 300 weather stations and other cutting-edge technology for better weather forecasting and emergency preparedness.
The World Bank is providing funding for the project, which will install three portable and five stationary surveillance radars over the course of three years.
Sahibzad Khan, the Director General of the PMD, estimates that $500 million will be needed to update meteorological equipment across Pakistan’s numerous cities.
Khan explained that while Karachi already has a cutting-edge radar station, two radars will be installed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the cities of Cherat and Dera Ismail Khan, two in Quetta and Gwadar, and one in Lahore.
