{"id":75116,"date":"2025-05-21T19:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=75116"},"modified":"2025-05-21T19:47:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:47:59","slug":"monsoon-season-to-begin-early-this-summer-ndma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/weather\/monsoon-season-to-begin-early-this-summer-ndma\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsoon season to begin early this summer: NDMA"},"content":{"rendered":"

KARACHI: Lieutenant<\/span> General<\/span> (<\/span>retd<\/span>)<\/span> Inam<\/span> Haider<\/span> Malik<\/span>,<\/span> Chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority<\/a> (NDMA), has<\/span> said<\/span> that<\/span> the<\/span> monsoon<\/span> this<\/span> year<\/span> is<\/span> going<\/span> to<\/span> be<\/span> of<\/span> higher<\/span>–<\/span>than<\/span>–<\/span>average<\/span> precipitation<\/span>,<\/span> possibly<\/span> before<\/span> the<\/span> normal<\/span> period<\/span>, likely<\/span> the<\/span> last<\/span> few<\/span> days<\/span> of<\/span> June<\/span> (<\/span>on<\/span> June 26 or 27)<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The<\/span> Monsoons<\/span> usually<\/span> last<\/span> from July until<\/span> the<\/span> middle<\/span> of<\/span> September, but<\/span> the<\/span> higher<\/span> average<\/span> precipitation<\/span> includes<\/span> beginning<\/span> a<\/span> few<\/span> days early<\/span> this<\/span> year<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

He<\/span> was<\/span> speaking<\/span> in<\/span> a briefing<\/span> to<\/span> the Senate Standing Committee on Climate Change<\/a>, chaired by Senator Sherry Rehman, at the NDMA headquarters.<\/p>\n

During the<\/span> course<\/span> of<\/span> the briefing, the<\/span> NDMA officials described<\/span> Northern and Eastern Punjab must<\/span> likely to receive the highest<\/span> precipitation<\/span> (<\/span>due<\/span> to<\/span> melting<\/span> glaciers<\/span>\u00a0and<\/span> rises<\/span> of<\/span> water<\/span> level<\/span> in<\/span> rivers<\/span>)<\/span>,<\/span> which<\/span> could<\/span> cause<\/span> local<\/span> flooding,<\/span> around<\/span> areas<\/span> of<\/span> water<\/span> gatherings<\/span> (<\/span>in<\/span> the<\/span> extreme<\/span> northern<\/span> part<\/span> of<\/span> the<\/span> country<\/span>)<\/span>.<\/p>\n

They<\/span> pointed<\/span> out<\/span> areas<\/span> like<\/span> Dera Ghazi Khan (<\/span>and<\/span> Rajanpur<\/span>)<\/span> will<\/span> likely<\/span> have<\/span> higher<\/span>–<\/span>than<\/span>–<\/span>average<\/span> direct<\/span> rainfall<\/span>.<\/span> NDMA<\/span> officials<\/span> said<\/span> the average annual precipitation<\/span> to<\/span> date<\/span> for<\/span> Punjab is about<\/span> 344 millimeters;<\/span> that<\/span> is<\/span> possible<\/span> to<\/span> be<\/span> about<\/span> 388 millimeters this<\/span> year<\/span>.<\/p>\n

In Northeastern Punjab, consider<\/span> 50<\/span> percent<\/span> higher<\/span> normal<\/span> precipitation<\/span>, with Southern Punjab to also<\/span> track<\/span> above<\/span> normal<\/span>. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the<\/span> precipitation<\/span> levels<\/span> in the north will<\/span> be<\/span> lower<\/span>, but<\/span> around<\/span> southern KP<\/span>,<\/span> expect<\/span> normal – and<\/span> possibly<\/span> higher<\/span> levels<\/span>. In glacier-heavy areas<\/span> like Chitral, the weather<\/span> will<\/span> remain dry or will receive rain than average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KARACHI: Lieutenant General (retd) Inam Haider Malik, Chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), has said that the monsoon this year is going to be of higher–than–average precipitation, possibly before the normal period, likely the last few days of June (on June 26 or 27). The Monsoons usually last from July until the middle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":47816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[28904,21074],"class_list":["post-75116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","category-weather","tag-monsoon-in-pakistan","tag-national-disaster-management-authority-ndma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75120,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75116\/revisions\/75120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}