{"id":7606,"date":"2024-05-04T13:50:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T10:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=7606"},"modified":"2024-05-04T13:50:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T10:20:55","slug":"pakistan-records-wettest-april-in-more-than-60-years-weather-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=7606","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan records ‘wettest April’ in more than 60 years: weather agency"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0Pakistan experienced its “wettest April\u00a0 since 1961”, receiving more than twice as much rain as usual for the month,\u00a0 the country’s weather agency said in a report. April rainfall was recorded at 59.3 millimetres, “excessively above” the\u00a0 normal average of 22.5 millimetres, Pakistan’s metrology department said late\u00a0 Friday in its monthly climate report. There were at least 144 deaths in thunderstorms and house collapses due to\u00a0 heavy rains in what the report said was the “wettest April since 1961”. Pakistan is increasingly vulnerable to unpredictable weather, as well as\u00a0 often destructive monsoon rains that usually arrive in July. In the summer of 2022, a third of Pakistan was submerged by unprecedented\u00a0 monsoon rains that displaced millions of people and cost the country $30\u00a0 billion in damage and economic losses, according to a World Bank estimate. “Climate change is a major factor that is influencing the erratic weather\u00a0 patterns in our region,” Zaheer Ahmad Babar, spokesperson for the Pakistan\u00a0 \u00a0Meteorological Department, said while commenting on the report. While much of Asia is sweltering due to heat waves, Pakistan’s national\u00a0 monthly temperature for April was 23.67 degrees Celsius (74 degrees\u00a0 \u00a0Fahrenheit) 0.87 degrees lower than the average of 24.54, the report noted. The highest rainfall was recorded in the southwestern province of Balochistan\u00a0 with 473 percent more than average. The South Asian nation has the world’s fifth-largest population and is\u00a0 responsible for less than one percent of global greenhouse gas emissions,\u00a0 according to officials, but is highly vulnerable to extreme weather\u00a0 exacerbated by global warming. The largest death toll was reported in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where\u00a0 84 people died, including 38 children, and more than 3,500 homes were\u00a0 damaged. Last month UNICEF called for urgent action to save children on the frontlines\u00a0 of climate change. “Children in Pakistan are at “extremely high risk” of the impacts of the\u00a0 climate crisis,” the UN agency said in a statement.\u00a0 “Despite significant aid efforts, 9.6 million children were still in need of\u00a0 humanitarian assistance in flood affected areas by December 2023,” it added. In some areas of Punjab, the most populous province and the breadbasket of a\u00a0 country facing an economic crisis, heavy rains and hailstorms caused damage\u00a0 to the wheat harvest, a staple food source.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Pakistan experienced its “wettest April\u00a0 since 1961”, receiving more than twice as much rain as usual for the month,\u00a0 the country’s weather agency said in a report. April rainfall was recorded at 59.3 millimetres, “excessively above” the\u00a0 normal average of 22.5 millimetres, Pakistan’s metrology department said late\u00a0 Friday in its monthly climate report. There were at least 144 deaths in thunderstorms and house collapses due to\u00a0 heavy rains in what the report said was the “wettest April since 1961”. Pakistan is increasingly vulnerable to unpredictable weather, as well as\u00a0 often<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_5980380192037842_108390337697511":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7609,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606\/revisions\/7609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}