{"id":7129,"date":"2024-05-04T16:20:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T16:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=7129"},"modified":"2024-05-04T16:20:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T16:20:17","slug":"pakistan-records-its-wettest-april-since-1961-with-above-average-rainfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=7129","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan records its wettest April since 1961 with above average rainfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gdb.voanews.com\/13a33e36-ad14-4a14-bb83-128ebfb793b5_cx0_cy4_cw0_w800_h450.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<span class=\"dateline\">ISLAMABAD \u2014\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has recorded its wettest April since 1961, with more than double the usual rainfall for the month, the national weather center said.<\/p>\n<p>The country experienced days of extreme weather in April that killed scores of people and destroyed property and farmland. Experts said Pakistan witnessed heavier rains because of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Last month\u2019s rainfall for Pakistan was a 164% increase from the usual level for April, according to a report published Friday by Pakistan\u2019s national weather center.<\/p>\n<p>The intense downpours affected the country\u2019s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the southwestern Baluchistan provinces the most.<\/p>\n<p>Devastating summer floods in 2022 killed at least 1,700 people, destroyed millions of homes, wiped out swaths of farmland and caused billions of dollars in economic losses in a matter of months.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, a third of the country was underwater. Pakistani leaders and many scientists worldwide blamed climate change for the unusually early and heavy monsoon rains.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/pakistan-records-its-wettest-april-since-1961-with-above-average-rainfall\/7597987.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD \u2014\u00a0 Pakistan has recorded its wettest April since 1961, with more than double the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan records its wettest April since 1961 with above average rainfall - International Pulse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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