The Pakistan Meteorological Department confirmed that the weather across Pakistan will remain cold and dry in the next 24 hours. There will be fog in plain areas of Punjab and upper Sindh, the department confirmed.
However, there are chances of wind with thunderstorm, along with snowfall in hilly areas including the parts of upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan and northwestern Balochistan.
The weather in the federal capital and Rawalpindi will be partly cloudy.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, cloudy weather with light rain and light snowfall is forecast for Chitral, Swat, Dir, Kohistan, Shangla, Battagram, Mansehra, Abbottabad, Buner, Khyber, Bajaur, Kurram and Waziristan. Partly cloudy and cold conditions are likely in other districts.
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Thousands of firefighters are fighting intense bushfires across Australia’s Victoria state, as of Saturday, January 10, with the crisis taking place in southeastern Australia, especially Victoria, the crisis is being fueled by extreme heat and dangerous weather conditions. The fires have destroyed homes, left tens of thousands of people without electricity and scorched millions of acres of bushland, the authorities calling it the worst disaster since the devastating Black Summer fires of 2019-2020.
The crisis has been playing out in southeastern Australia in the last week with a critical situation prevailing on Saturday, January 10, especially in the state of Victoria, where relief efforts are still underway to bring major fires under control.
Officials have stated that the blazes started in the middle of the week during an extreme heatwave and rapidly escalated because of dry conditions and prevailing strong winds.
By Saturday morning, authorities said more than 300,000 hectares of bushland had been burnt across the state, in more than 10 fires which are still considered to be “uncontained”.
At least 130 structures, including homes, have been destroyed and about 38,000 homes and businesses had no electricity as flames damaged important infrastructure.
