LAHORE: Rain in the city’s southern localities and drizzle in the downtown created severe mugginess in the city on Thursday.

It remained partly cloudy and sultry throughout the day. Drizzle in the afternoon in the downtown and rain in southern parts added to the humidity in the rest of the city, worsening the mugginess.

The maximum temperature was 36 degrees Celsius and the minimum 28 degrees Celsius with 67 per cent humidity in the air.

The Met Office said the penetrating monsoon current and a shallow westerly wave, expected to grip upper parts of the country on Thursday night, were likely to generate rain in the next 36 hours.

It forecast widespread rain and thundershower with scattered heavy falls over Kashmir, Hazara, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Lahore, Gujranwala divisions in the next 36 hours.

Rain and thundershower are also expected at scattered places in Malakand, Sargodha, Faisalabad, Dera Ghazi Khan divisions and Fata.

Published in Dawn, July 10th, 2015

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