ISLAMABAD: The Federal Flood Commission (FFC) Sunday said no flood situation in the country as major rivers including Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi and Sutlej are flowing normal.
According to daily FFC report on Sunday, only River Kabul in Warsak- Nowshera Reach and its tributary River Swat at Chakdara Bridge are continued to flow in Low Flood.
Sufficient space is available in our major reservoirs (Tarbela & Mangla) to absorb any unprecedented inflows and their present elevations are 1507.10 feet and 1213.95 feet respectively. Current Combined Live Storage capacity of Tarbela, Chashma & Mangla reservoirs is 9.287 MAF as compared to the last year’s 10.530 MAF. This is 67.02 % of total Live Storage capacity.
As per Flood Forecasting Division (FFD), Lahore, yesterday’s Well Marked
Monsoon Low today lies over Southwest Rajasthan (India) and has weakened into Monsoon Low. This is likely to weaken further. Nevertheless a fresh Monsoon Low has developed over Northwest Bay of Bengal. Besides, yesterday’s trough of Westerly Wave over Northeastern Afghanistan and adjoining areas at present prevails over Northern parts of the country. Seasonal Low exists over Northern Balochistan and moist currents from Bay of Bengal were penetrating into upper parts of the country up to 5000 feet at the reporting time today.
FFD, Lahore, has predicted scattered thunderstorm/rain with isolated heavy falls over Punjab (Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, Sargodha, Bahawalpur & D.G. Khan Divisions), Southern & Southeastern Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, Kohat & D.I. Khan Divisions) & Eastern Balochistan, including upper catchments of Rivers Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, and Sutlej during the next 24 hours.
Scattered thunderstorm/rain over the upper catchments of River Indus are also expected during the same period with isolated thunderstorm/ rain over Faisalabad, Sahiwal & Multan Divisions of Punjab.
FFD, Lahore has predicted decrease in the rainfall activity in Sindh, however, Moderate Rainfall with isolated heavy falls may continue to occur over the upper catchments of all major rivers, besides Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab during the next two days. Moderate Flooding in Local Nullahs of Balochistan and Hill Torrents of D.G. Khan Division is also expected during the next 2-3 days. Few significant rainfall events have been reported for the past 24 hours by FFD, Lahore. These include: Sialkot 23 mm, Thatta 19 mm, Khuzdar 18 mm, Sibbi and Zhob 17 mm each, Karachi 15 mm, Hyderabad and Shaheed Benazirabad 12 mm each and Lasbela 7 mm.—APP
