Rivers Continue To Run Normal: FFC

All main rivers including Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi and Sutlej are flowing normal, daily FFC report Tuesday said.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 10th Jul, 2018 ) :All main rivers including Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi and Sutlej are flowing normal, daily FFC report Tuesday said.

The actual river flows and reservoir elevations indicates that Tarbela & Mangla reservoirs are at elevations of 1386.00 feet and 1120.45 feet respectively, which are 164.00 feet & 121.55 feet below their respective Maximum Conservation Levels of 1550.00 feet and 1242.00 feet.

The combined live storage capacity of Tarbela, Chashma & Mangla reservoirs is 0.805 MAF (5.88 % as compared to the maximum combined live storage capacity of 13.681 MAF).

Present reservoirs position depicts a very grim position of water availability and until & unless good snow melt and adequate monsoon rains are received in the upper catchments of major rivers, the position is not going to improve.

Judicious water distribution in this situation would be much desirable to both augment flows in reservoirs besides meeting provincial needs.

As per FFD, Lahore, yesterday's trough of Westerly Wave continues to prevail over Northeastern Afghanistan and is expected to prevail over the upper parts of the country from Wednesday (July 11, 2018).

Moist currents of moderate intensity from Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal have started to penetrate northeastern parts of the country and are likely to intensify from Thursday (July 12, 2018).

Yesterday's Monsoon Low today lies over Eastern Madhya Pradesh (India).

It is likely to weaken during the next 24 hours. Under the influence of aforementioned Meteorological conditions, scattered wind thunderstorm/ rain (with isolated heavy rains) is expected over the upper catchments of all major rivers besides isolated wind thunderstorm/ rain over Rawalpindi, Gujranwala & Lahore Divisions during the next 24 hours.

Further, the monsoon rains are likely to commence over Kashmir, Upper Punjab and Upper KP during next 48 hours.

More rain-thundershowers with gusty winds are expected at scattered places in Islamabad, Upper Punjab (Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, Sargodha & Faisalabad Divisions), Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, Mardan & Kohat Divisions), FATA and Kashmir, while at isolated places in Bannu, D.I. Khan, Sahiwal & Multan Divisions from Thursday to Sunday (July 12-15, 2018).

Rain is also likely to occur at isolated places in Sindh Province and Northern Balochistan on 14th and 15th July. Heavy to Very heavy rain is also expected at isolated places in Kashmir, Gujranwala, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Hazara and Malakand Divisions from 13th to 15th July.