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Get the Islamabad local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Get the Islamabad, Islamabad local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) (Urdu: محکمہ موسمیات پاکستان, also known as Pakistan Met Office [3] [4]), is an autonomous and independent institution tasked with providing weather forecasts and public warnings concerning weather for protection, safety and general information.
A NASA satellite image showing the Indus River at the time of 2010 floods. Pakistan has seen many floods. The worst, and most destructive, flooding was the recent 2010 Pakistan floods, which swept away 20% of Pakistan's land. The flood was the result of unprecedented monsoon rains, which lasted from 28 July to 31 July 2010.
In 2009, Islamabad saw below normal monsoon rainfalls due to the presence of El Niño over Pakistan. [19] It just recorded 354 millimetres (13.9 in) of rain during the Monsoon season in 2009. [18] The highest rainfall of 620 millimetres (24 in) was recorded in Islamabad on 23 July 2001. The record breaking rain fell in just 10 hours.
The forecast and weather alerts are also accessible over Android devices through a free downloadable WeatherApp. Satellite data based Meteorology And Oceanography Research and Training (SMART) [ 4 ] is an ISRO initiative to support students, academics and researchers across the country to pursue research in the field of Meteorology and ...
The Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite-1 (PRSS-1), is an earth observation optical satellite launched from China's Jiuquan Satellite Centre on 9 July 2018. [ 1 ] History
A weather satellite or meteorological satellite is a type of Earth observation satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites are mainly of two types: polar orbiting (covering the entire Earth asynchronously) or geostationary (hovering over the same spot on the equator ).