Dry Weather Gives Rise To Seasonal Diseases In AJK

Cold and dry weather conditions in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (JK), especially the upper reaches, have plunged a certain number of the population into seasonal diseases including fever, flue, cold and cough, vertigo and body pain

MIRPUR (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Dec, 2017 ) , :Cold and dry weather conditions in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (JK), especially the upper reaches, have plunged a certain number of the population into seasonal diseases including fever, flue, cold and cough, vertigo and body pain.

The capital city of Muzaffarabad recorded 6.2 degree centigrade minimum temperature while the day was sunny with a maximum temperature of 18 degree centigrade on Thursday. As the nights have started witnessing the lowest temperature, evenings and morning are getting colder in both plain and upper parts of the AJK.

People mostly stay indoors and come out of their homes late in the morning and go home before the dusk to save themselves from low temperatures. Severe cold and dry weather conditions started in top mountainous parts AJK after a respite early this week when there was fresh snowfall on mountains and light rain in the plains.

The temperatures might plummet further during next one week and there will be no respite for the people from the bone chilling cold, according to the official sources.