Islamabad: Unlike what was predicted earlier about heavy rainfall in this summer than those in last two years, Monsoon rain in Pakistan hasn’t fallen yet.
Few months back National Disaster Management Authority predicted a warning for heavy rain in lower Sindh and Makran coast. However, Pakistan meteorological department is of the view that it is impossible for world meteorological departments to forecast rainfall two months before the monsoon season.
Arif Mehmood, Director General Pakistan Meteorological department said, “We can predict the rain average three to five days before it falls”.
He said that NDMA’s prediction was its own while the PMD had its own system to forecast few weeks before monsoon.
In this regard a survey was carried out by Gallup Pakistan to know the perceptions of common public about summer rains in Pakistan, which revealed that 56% of Pakistanis believe that this year summer rains are less than the historic averages; 35% believe there is no difference and there has been same amount of rainfalls as last year, 4% believe that there has been more rainfall compared to last year. However, 5% did not give a view.
This nationally representative survey was held under Gillani Research Foundation with the question asked, “According to your view there was less rain, more or the same during this year in Pakistan?”
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