{"id":76778,"date":"2026-03-20T20:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/mar\/20\/weather-tracker-unseasonal-storms-hit-parts-of-pakistan-and-india"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:02:52","slug":"weather-tracker-unseasonal-storms-hit-parts-of-pakistan-and-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76778","title":{"rendered":"Weather tracker: Unseasonal storms hit parts of Pakistan and India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi particularly badly affected with 18 people killed, more than 50mm of rain and winds gusting up to 60mph<\/p>\n<p>Unseasonally wet weather struck southern Pakistan and north-west India on Wednesday, as heavy rain rolled in from the west, accompanied by thunderstorms, hail, and strong winds.<\/p>\n<p>Karachi, Pakistan\u2019s largest city, was particularly badly affected, locally recording more than 50mm of rain with winds gusting up to 60mph. Walls, buildings, and a pedestrian bridge collapsed, with flooding and power outages across the city. At least 18 people were killed and several more injured, many by structural collapses, with other deaths attributed to a fallen tree and a lightning strike.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/mar\/20\/weather-tracker-unseasonal-storms-hit-parts-of-pakistan-and-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi particularly badly affected with 18 people killed, more than 50mm of rain and winds gusting up to 60mphUnseasonally wet weather struck southern Pakistan and north-west India on Wednesday, as heavy rain rolled in from the west, accompanied by th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,455,313,62,60,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-india","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76779,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76778\/revisions\/76779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}