Mercury in Karachi to drop further next week

The temperature in Karachi is going to fall down to 9 degrees Celsius next week as cold winds have started to blow in the port city, Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has said.

The weather in the metropolis is expected to get colder from January 27 to January 29, the department said.

“It will get colder as wind speed will increase from 42 km [kilometres] per hour to 48 km per hour,” a spokesperson of the Met Office was quoted as saying.

“The temperature in Karachi has for now been recorded at 18 degrees [Celsius] and is expected to drop to as low as 12 [Celsius] degrees today,” the spokesperson added.

Moisture in the air was recorded at 43% and visibility level was 3 km.