LAHORE: April arrived in Pakistan with scorching heat for the second year in a row, rather than a bloom. Weeks before the formal start of summer, temperatures in vast regions of Punjab, Sindh, and Balochistan surged above 40 degrees Celsius.
Muhammad Irfan Virk, the deputy director of the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) in Islamabad, told The News that Pakistan has not seen spring in the past two years. “The month of April is getting hotter and warmer. This is a cause for concern.
This year, the PMD issued five heat advisories in April and May, with the majority occurring in April, which is usually seen as a transitional month. In the Shaheed Benazirabad area of Sindh, the highest recorded temperature was 49 degrees Celsius on April 17.
