Islamabad: Though it didn't rain, frosty conditions prevailed in the federal capital all through Sunday as the mercury hovered around freesing.The people thronged the local public places, including parks, picnic spots, malls and restaurants, covering themselves by woollies and some drove to recreational facilities on the city's outskirts, including the Murree hill station, a day after around 40 millimetres rain fell.The Met Office recorded the minimum temperature of two degree Celsius in the city. Pir Sohawa, Daman-i-Koh, Lake View Park, Fatima Jinnah Park, Shakarparian, Shahdara, Chattar attracted large crowds of people, especially families, as skies were partly sunny. Tailbacks were seen on many roads.High sales of soup, fried fish, barbecued food,’ samosas’, ‘pakoras’ and ‘jalebis’ were also reported. The doctors reported a lower incidence of problems caused by the dry, cold spell like throat and chest infections, flu and fever after the rainy spell.The weathermen ruled out rainfall in the next few days but said the weather would stay mostly sunny yet dry and cold in the city. They said mainly very cold and dry conditions would prevail in most parts of the country, while plains of Punjab, upper Sindh and Peshawar division would see foggy conditions in early and late hours.
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