I was just going through the detailed forecast of Islamabad’s weather, and I noticed Showers are expected on eid day. So be prepared for the safe harboring of your sacrificial animals. Rain on Eid ul Adhaa can make the things difficult :\ (the 10-day forecast is attached after the jump in this post) & (an interesting news report on Islamabad’s Bakra Mandi).

So, the true Chill Factor has already entered Islamabad’s air … if you are visiting from Ppunjab or Sindh come fully prepared to cope with it. If you are prone to coldness, you know how to enjoy it well :-) In here afternoons and mornings in bright sun are pleasant but the insides are, as I’ve noticed, always cold.

Hence during winters my tea intake becomes double, can’t resist nut-munching, and the pretty heater, at full blare is a treat, I enjoy all the time. How do You cope Fight Islamabad’s chilliness?
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A few days in the evening I found a castle looking at Islamabad from the skies. It was an awesome view that I captured instantly …!
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Last week, just after Lal masjid operation, the weather turned really nasty in Islamabad … heavy showers on last Thursday and then on Saturday troubling many in and around the city.

can you guess which place is this???

And then the Thursday showers and blizzard uprooted many trees, branches were everywhere … Islamabad was looking like a bride readied up in loadshedding ;-)

Images Courtesy: Dawn & DT

More pictures on the storm can be found Taken by Suhail on Flickr

Its about time Pakistan realized that the Himalayan mountain ranges that serve as a natural source of fresh water for the entire country are under a severe threat from global Carbon emissions and consequent global warming. Well, fear not as the people at the Environment Ministry and it’s international affiliates do know about the importance of these reserves for a nation which has a major chunk of it’s economy depending upon it’s agricultural produce every year. Without fresh water, there is a huge chance and a threat that we might not be able to meet the demands of our agricultural lands solely through rain water.
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Islamabad after a heat wave (though not an intense as may usually experiences) was hit by a blasterous dust storm first in evening of 18th May, and then the roars of clouds, lightening never like before, and heavy heavy downpour. And with heavy downpour even the winds were high … it was achilly night :>

Later that night while I was on road encircling islamabad, almost, I was regretting not to bring my digital camera with me … Since I’d love to cature the Lightening flickers and that night they were superb (god forbid) … just that Icouldn’t catch them.

Anyways , here’s what Dawn showed on saturday in its paper ….

Cars and a lone street walker grope their way as a windstorm that hit the twin cities greatly reduced visibility in Islamabad on Friday evening. A car taking sharp turn due to low visibility overturned in front of the parliament building bringing down the lampposts it hit …!

Courtesy: Dawn

Islamabad seldom looks like a swimming pool – Today it was one of those days.

This pool of brown water looks inviting, naah, OK just the colour’s a bit muddy but then do yu think all pools in Pakistan consist of Crystal Clear water, some are for sure like this.

I was thinking if such thing persists (thanks to Construction) people can start thinking to buy boats – In coming Barsaat (few months to go) We’ll be needing them – we’ll have two underpasses ready by then too :-)
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Just last week, when the weather became finer and I was out to up in Margallas … Monkeys welcomed us and not one or two monkeys — there were families of them enjoying themselves and probably sun bathing too :>

On our way back, we stopped our car along the path (though unfortunately my cam’s batteries got exhausted after 2-3 pix) so I couldnt take many pix but the monkeys were so cute … and gosh their eyes were so beautiful too .. lolz … really look at the eyes of the ones here below.

And their were so many babies too … they were equally adorable … and while looking at them – I was thinking (loudly) that there’s a certain feel of intellectuality in them … even in their eyes … NO?? They were in playfull mood and were cashing their charms ;-) in form of corns, bananas and what not — oh yah everyone was shooting them too.

BTW, most of them were brown – only one monkey I saw was gray coloured.

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The other night dear, as I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you in my arms
But when I awoke, dear, I was mistaken
So I hung my head and I cried.

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You’ll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don’t take my sunshine away


On a more serious note, the weather is cloudy yet again…

P.S. It’s the perfect weather to go to Pir Suhawa.