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Climatic Regions of Pakistan

Climate of Pakistan
The atmospheric condition for a short period of time
is called weather.
The average atmospheric condition for a long period
of time usually 30 year is called climate.
Weather is the daily or day to day atmospheric
condition it is changing hour to hour or day to day
while climate is the average and takes hundreds,
thousands, even millions of years to change.
Elements of weather condition

1 Temperature
2 Rain fall
3 Humidity.
4 Pressure
5 Wind
Factors that affect the climate of Pakistan
1 Altitude
2 Latitude location.
The sub-Tropical location of Pakistan that tends
to keep the temperature high, particularly in
summer.
3 Surface of the earth
5 Wind
6 Distance from the sea
World Climate

Dr. R. B. Schultz
Sources of rain fall in Pakistan
1 Monsoon
2 Western depression
Climatic Regions Of Pakistan.

Pakistan can be divided into the following climatic regions:


1.Sub-Tropical Continental Highland Type
This region includes the mountains in the North and West of
the Indus plain.
In this region winters are cold and lengthy and often the
temperatures goes below the freezing point and the higher
peaks remain snow -covered throughout the year. But here
summer remains short cool.
The Western mountainous areas are less fertile and have
barren rocks without any natural vegetation, and receive less
rain fall then the northern and eastern mountain and receive
2.Sub-Tropical Continental Plateau Type
This region includes the north western part of
Baluchistan Province and Potwar region. Here winters
are cold ,and in summer temperature goes higher
enough and often dust storms prevail .Although it has
higher altitude ,but due to poor rainfall these have
turned into arid desert . In these areas there is lack of
rain water and it is less than 10 inches or 25 cm
annually ,but some of the places of these areas have
the lowest rainfall e.g. Nokundi has only 1.95 inches
or 5 cm of rainfall annually and rain often comes
during the months of January and February
• 3.Sub-Tropical Continental Low Lands
This region includes the interior areas of Punjab and Sindh
provinces and Peshawar valley. It has generally arid and
extreme climate.
• Here summer remains long and hot but winters are cool and
short.
• It has the hottest places of the country such as Jacobabad and
Sibbi.
• The rainy season begins in the middle of the summer
months.The places which are situated near pledmont areas
have enough rainfall e.g. Sialkot has about 30 inches or 88.3
cm. of annual rainfall.
• But the western part of this plain is drier than the eastern due
to very poor rainfall e.g. Thal and Cholistan desert in Punjab
and Tharparker desert in Sindh are included in this region.
• 4.Sub-Tropical Coastal Areas Type
This region includes the coastal area around Karachi
and Makran. Here due to the influence of the sea the
temperature remains moderate the rainfall is about 7
inches or 18 cm annually .

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