{"id":85402,"date":"2025-09-09T10:16:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=85402"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:03:10","slug":"karachi-on-high-alert-as-100-mm-rain-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/karachi\/karachi-on-high-alert-as-100-mm-rain-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"Karachi on high alert as 100 mm rain forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-observes-world-meteorological-day-urges-enhanced-weather-forecasting\/\">Meteorological Department<\/a> has warned of the risk of urban flooding in Karachi today, predicting heavy to heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p>According to meteorologists, 4 to 6 spells of rain are expected in the city today, with some places potentially receiving more than<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/special-eu-flight-carrying-over-100-pakistani-immigrants-land-in-islamabad\/\"> 100 mm<\/a> of rain.<\/p>\n<p>The Meteorological Department says that this is an unusual weather system that is entering Sindh from India in the form of a depression, and its path is also unclear and complex, due to which the intensity of the rain may vary in different areas.<\/p>\n<p>In view of the heavy rains, there has been a fear of urban flooding in the city, while a flood situation also arose in the Malir River yesterday, which had been dry for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>It should be remembered that intermittent light and heavy rains have been continuing in Karachi since yesterday, due to which complaints of water accumulation in low-lying areas have been received.<\/p>\n<p>The Meteorological Department and the district administration have appealed to the citizens to avoid unnecessary travel, stay away from electric poles, bare wires, and places with deep water.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens should contact rescue agencies immediately in case of any emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: The Meteorological Department has warned of the risk of urban flooding in Karachi today, predicting heavy to heavy rain. According to meteorologists, 4 to 6 spells of rain are expected in the city today, with some places potentially receiving more than 100 mm of rain. The Meteorological Department says that this is an unusual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":41590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14811,43],"tags":[12051],"class_list":["post-85402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-karachi","category-weather","tag-karachi-weather-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85402","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85405,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85402\/revisions\/85405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}