LAHORE:
The punishing heat tip continued to grab the country on Saturday, while the sun burned above and dry winds intensified public discomfort in urban and rural areas.
The Provincial Authority of Disaster Management (PDMA) issued a heat wave alert, warning of very high temperatures in the main cities and plains of Punjab until May 19.
“There is a risk of an unusual increase in temperatures in the coming days,” warned a PDMA spokesman, adding that temperatures could remain from 4 to 7 ° C above normal until May 20.
According to the Department of Meteorology of Pakistan, Lahore registered a minimum temperature of 28 ° C, and Mercury is expected to rise to 43 ° C in the next few days.
The department predicted a warm and dry climate to persist during the next two or three days, discarding any possibility of rain.
The Department of Meteorology of Pakistan (PMD) registered the minimum temperature in LaHore at 28 ° C, with forecasts that suggest that the maximum could increase to 44 ° C.
The weather is likely to remain hot and dry during the next two or three days, without rainfall during this period.
The extreme warm climate has disturbed academic activities, especially for children in small private schools due to bad facilities in the classrooms.
The situation is alarming in schools that operate in small buildings in cities, including Lahore, which even lack adequate facilities of fans and water. Students in remote districts also suffer during closure and midfield of schools when the temperature increases.
The Punjab government is likely to consider closing educational institutions in the province due to the hard climate and a meeting is expected for that purpose at the end of this week.
The growing temperature during the past week made it difficult for young children to study in congested classrooms.
The worst situation faces small schools built in violation of the rules that lack the necessary facilities to continue academic activities.
Health experts have urged the public to stay hydrated, consume cooling fluids and cover their heads when venturing outdoors to reduce heat stroke risk.
Meanwhile, thick smoke columns covered sections of the Lahore-Islamabad and Lahore-Sialkot highways after farmers set fire to the cultivation of cultivation at night at night, in violation of environmental regulations.
