Sindh and Balochistan this year have recorded the heaviest rainfall since 1961 during the worst monsoon spells in six decades. According to ...
Sindh and Balochistan this year have recorded the heaviest rainfall since 1961 during the worst monsoon spells in six decades.
According to the report of maknews-21, this rate of more than normal rains has been recorded in Sindh by 522% and in Balochistan by 469%.
Fresh data released by the Meteorological Department has taken the authorities by surprise, with environmental experts also issuing warnings based on the data which heralds new challenges for the authorities.
"Sindh has received 680.5 mm of rain since the beginning of the monsoon season in July, which is 522 percent more than the normal as per the ratio and set standards, Sindh has received normal rainfall," an official of the Meteorological Department said. 109.5 mm of rain falls in the monsoon season'.
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He further said that "Similarly, every monsoon season in Balochistan receives an average of 50 mm of rain but till now 284 mm i.e. 469% more rain has been recorded".
He said that the country has received a total of 207 times more rain in monsoon this year and this season will continue till the end of September.
He said that '1 thousand 722 mm of rain has fallen since July in the town of Padaidan of Nowshroo Feroze district, this amount has never been recorded in any town of Sindh'.
He cited data showing that Sindh and Balochistan last witnessed such torrential rains in 1994, which were the heaviest on record since 1961.
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He said that in 1994, Sindh received 502.6 mm of rain, which was 276% more than normal according to the ratio of that time based on atmospheric and meteorological modules. was 52 percent more than
The same situation was seen in other parts of the country this year, according to the data of the Meteorological Department, Gilgit-Baltistan has received 50.3 mm of rain in 2 months so far, which is 99% more than normal, and 349 mm of rain in Punjab. which is 90% more than the normal monsoon rainfall, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa received 31% more than normal rainfall which has recorded 257.4 mm of rainfall so far.
Azad Jammu and Kashmir is the only region in the country to have received below average monsoon rainfall this year, recording 279.6 mm of rainfall, which is 7% less than the normal.
This situation has raised alarm bells as officials and experts believe that climate change is no longer an impending challenge but has already arrived.
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Dr. Ghulam Rasool, the former Director General of the Department of Meteorology, said in this regard that the effects of climate change have started to emerge, what we are seeing now is actually a continuation of the events that had started a long time ago. For example, spring is almost over in Pakistan, we have not seen spring this year, after experiencing very harsh winters in rural areas we have also seen extreme heat with one heat wave after another.
Dr. Ghulam Rasool attributed the floods in Sindh and Balochistan to large-scale destructive rains rather than the structure of the land.
He said that hilly soil in Balochistan could be a reason for worsening the flood situation as water cannot be absorbed on such a surface but there is no such reason in any part of Sindh.
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Dr. Ghulam Rasool said, “Another aspect that makes this climate issue even more challenging is the growing population and the rapidly shrinking space for a better and more eco-friendly ecosystem.
He said that the population is growing so fast that our agricultural land is being used for urban settlement and construction. 5,500 cubic meters of water was available for , now this amount has reduced to 850 cubic meters.
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