Hurricane Expected
Storm headed toward Karachi and is expected to hit in the next 6 hours. It is 150 km away in the Arabian Sea as I type.
Wherever you are, please head home. The traffic is likely going to be ugly and with added rainfall and strong winds it is advisable to not be out on the roads.
CNN predicts heavy showers and thunder over the next four days.
http://weather.cnn.com/weather/forecast.jsp?locCode=OPKC&zipCode=354328257765
Contradicting reports but I feel the storm is missing Karachi as it can be seen here
What is going .. its coming its not its coming … guys please give proper news so that i know if i should get some pokoras on my way back home :D
bhai pakoray saray pani me kharab hojey gay, jakar jaldi se khareedlo
Loadsheding me pakroun ka maza hay kuch aur hay..
Get some for me too ! And a film also, as it is forecasted to rain most of Tuesday and Wednesday.
First of all Hurricanes do not occur in this part of the world. We have what is called Tropical storms.
This particular one is names 03B and it not headed for Karachi but its trajectory is Gulf of Oman – as usual!
It will be closet to our region sometime tonight. We may have a few showers and some gusts of winds but nothing that will blow off your panties!
http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/ni200703.html
yes. its NOT coming. GEO is crazy. dont believe them .
check it
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/tenday/PKXX0008?from=search_10day
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=karachi
oh and this too
radar: http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/map/currentradar/PKXX0008?from=tenDay_topnav_business
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0151
http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/Asia/frct.html
OFFICIAL ADVISORY:
http://www.pakmet.com.pk/sindhadvisory.html
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And please stop pointing to the local Met office link whose web site is half operational at best and very user unfriendly.
Besides don’t put much into forecasts that have the name of Director General propagated and advertised all the time, be it TV, Radio or any other medium. Makes it sound like a one man show.
I don’t mind someone printing their name or post in the forecast BUT
Why Director General has to sign these sort of information…can’t it be some other lil officer or meteorological services as a whole? lol :S
@Teeth, @Imran: The storm did not miss, Umar made the little error in response to my story.
See my detailed AND ACCURATE explanation with correct links in his post http://karachi.metblogs.com/archives/2007/06/tropical_storm.phtml
and earlier in @Teeth’s post http://karachi.metblogs.com/archives/2007/06/230_lives_lost.phtml
@BOZZ, @X: Wunderground, weather.com all give very generic information. Really useless in giving short term info.
@BOZZ: pakmet indeed is the old hopeless site.
http://www.met.gov.pk/indexNew.asp is the new (surprisingly good) site. See the Infra-Red image under “Satellite and Radars”. Latest images on our area you can find anywhere.
Or you can go directly http://www.met.gov.pk/TempFrame/?targetLink=http://www.pakmet.com.pk/Subpage1/S_images/html_files/ir_img.html here.
@X: The advisory is old (though valid). Follow link above.
WARNING: As noted in my previous post, the wind is blowing East to West. It should start blowing from South-East to North-West later tonight. Unless some drastic change of direction takes place, THAT IS WHEN THE TAIL OF TROPICAL STORM 03B hits Karachi.
For wind speeds, wave heights and rain info see my previous comments in posts mentioned above.
Better stay indoors. This one is closer than you think.
@Teeth, @Imran: The storm did not miss, Umar made the little error in response to my story.
See my detailed AND ACCURATE explanation with correct links in his post http://karachi.metblogs.com/archives/2007/06/tropical_storm.phtml
and earlier in @Teeth’s post http://karachi.metblogs.com/archives/2007/06/230_lives_lost.phtml
@BOZZ, @X: Wunderground, weather.com all give very generic information. Really useless in giving short term info.
@BOZZ: pakmet indeed is the old hopeless site.
http://www.met.gov.pk/indexNew.asp is the new (surprisingly good) site. See the Infra-Red image under “Satellite and Radars”. Latest images on our area you can find anywhere.
Or you can go directly http://www.met.gov.pk/TempFrame/?targetLink=http://www.pakmet.com.pk/Subpage1/S_images/html_files/ir_img.html here.
@X: The advisory is old (though valid). Follow link above.
WARNING: As noted in my previous post, the wind is blowing East to West. It should start blowing from South-East to North-West later tonight. Unless some drastic change of direction takes place, THAT IS WHEN THE TAIL OF TROPICAL STORM 03B hits Karachi.
For wind speeds, wave heights and rain info see my previous comments in posts mentioned above.
Better stay indoors. This one is closer than you think.
@BOZZ blowinng off panties: Its better to err on the side of caution.
@Teeth, @Imran: The storm did not miss, Umar made the little error in response to my story.
See my detailed AND ACCURATE explanation with correct links in his post http://karachi.metblogs.com/archives/2007/06/tropical_storm.phtml
and earlier in @Teeth’s post http://karachi.metblogs.com/archives/2007/06/230_lives_lost.phtml
@BOZZ, @X: Wunderground, weather.com all give very generic information. Really useless in giving short term info.
@BOZZ: pakmet indeed is the old hopeless site.
http://www.met.gov.pk/indexNew.asp is the new (surprisingly good) site. See the Infra-Red image under “Satellite and Radars”. Latest images on our area you can find anywhere.
Or you can go directly http://www.met.gov.pk/TempFrame/?targetLink=http://www.pakmet.com.pk/Subpage1/S_images/html_files/ir_img.html here.
@X: The advisory is old (though valid). Follow link above.
WARNING: As noted in my previous post, the wind is blowing East to West. It should start blowing from South-East to North-West later tonight. Unless some drastic change of direction takes place, THAT IS WHEN THE TAIL OF TROPICAL STORM 03B hits Karachi.
For wind speeds, wave heights and rain info see my previous comments in posts mentioned above.
Better stay indoors. This one is closer than you think.
@BOZZ blowinng off panties: Its better to err on the side of caution.
Confusing news! I can’t seem to understand what is going to happen. It’s all to confusing
Nothing to worry about – you will just get a bit wet!
may god have mercy on us all…
To summarize: the storm will not be as bad as projected. Do not be out on the roads if you dont have to!
The billboards fell off because they weren’t construted propoerly to stand these types of winds. There has not been a need for this before, this hopefully results in better planning.
Poles and other structures fell to the ground for the same reasons.
Sad.
Is it over? We had a crazy rain here in Gulistan-e-Johar and we do not have power here for the last 10 hours!
We got you RedSnapper
definitely more pokaras with samosas today :D … enjoyed last night :)