Very hot and dry weather is likely to prevail over plain areas of the country during the next twelve hours.

However, rain-wind/thunderstorm is expected at isolated places in Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and northeast Punjab.

Temperature of some major cities recorded this morning: Islamabad twenty-five degree centigrade, Lahore and Karachi twenty-nine, Peshawar twenty-seven, Gilgit seventeen, Murree nineteen, Quetta twenty-four and Muzaffarabad twenty-two degree centigrade. According to Met Office forecast for Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, partly cloudy weather with chances of rain-thunderstorm is expected in Srinagar, Leh, Pulwama, Anantnag, Shopian and Baramula while hot and dry weather in Jammu. Temperature recorded this morning: Srinagar seventeen degree centigrade. Leh thirteen, Jammu thirty, Pulwama and Baramula nineteen, Anantnag and Shopian eighteen degree centigrade.