Pakistan Meteorological Department has issued its annual report highlighting the state of the climate in the country in 2022.

The 16-slide report includes details of floods, record-breaking rains, snowfalls, and changes in temperatures recorded across Pakistan.

Some of the highlights of the [report][1] are as followed:

• A very heavy snowstorm occurred (16.5 inches) on 7-8 January 2022 at the hilly station, Murree, and suburbs, which caused several deaths of tourists, due to freezing & carbon monoxide poisoning owing to being stranded in their vehicles the whole night.
• The country witnessed the ever-highest and record-breaking rainfall during the year 2022 with national total rainfall being +77% of the average, since 1961.
• The country experienced the worst-ever devastating flooding during the monsoon season, peaking in late August. July (181% above normal) and August (243% above normal) were the wettest on record. Sindh province was particularly severely affected with Balochistan also hard hit.
  

  

• Record-breaking rain triggered massive flooding that took over 1700 deaths with 33 million people affected and 7.9 million displaced.
• The unprecedented intense rainfall in Balochistan, Sindh, and Southern Punjab in monsoon 2022 set many new daily- and monthly-total rainfall records.
• The annual national mean temperature for 2022, for Pakistan as a whole, was 0.84 °C above average, placing it as the fifth-warmest year on record.
• The pre-monsoon period was exceptionally hot in the country with March and April were the hottest ever months on record. Daily maximum temperatures set new records at several locations in Sindh, Balochistan, and Southern Punjab. Six heatwaves occurred across the country during March-May 2022 with day/maximum temperatures being 5-12°C above average.
• In maximum winds, there were 81 events of 30 knots (and more) at different plain stations with 60 knots being the highest wind gust recorded at Lahore Airport on 22 May.
• The La Niña conditions persisted for 3rd year in a row, one of the rare phenomena billed as a Triple-dip La Niña.
• Negative Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) developed during June-September and then returned to a neutral phase at the end of 2022. [1]: https://www.pmd.gov.pk/cdpc/Pakistan_Climate_2022.pdf