River Kabul Continues To Run In Low Flood: Federal Flood Commission

The Federal Flood Commission (FFC) has said that River Kabul is flowing in low flood at Nowshera while other main rivers including Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi and Sutlej are normal.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 31st Jul, 2018 ) :The Federal Flood Commission (FFC) has said that River Kabul is flowing in low flood at Nowshera while other main rivers including Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi and Sutlej are normal.

According to daily FFC report on Tuesday, the actual river flows and reservoir elevations indicates that Tarbela and Mangla reservoirs elevations are at 1517.44 feet and 1148.95 feet respectively (32.56 feet and 93.05 feet below their respective maximum conservation levels).

The combined live storage is 6.235 MAF which is 45.57 percent compared to the existing combined live storage capacity of 13.

681 MAF.

According to FFD, Lahore, moist currents have been cut off temporarily, whereas yesterday's trough of Westerly Wave over Kashmir has moved towards East. At present only a weak seasonal low lies over Northwestern Balochistan.

Mainly dry weather has been predicted by FFD, Lahore over most parts of Pakistan during the next 24 hours. Nevertheless, isolated thunderstorm/rain may occur over the upper catchments of River Chenab including Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Gujranwala, Lahore and D.G. Khan Divisions of Punjab and Kohat and Bannu Divisions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the same period.