As Pakistan is located in north of the Tropic of Cancer, between latitudes 23¤30 and 36¤45 North, it has a continental type of climate, characterized by extreme variations of temperature. The areas closer to the snow-covered northern mountains are cold.
Temperatures on the Baluchistan Pleteau are comparatively high. Along the coastal strip, the climate is modified by sea breezes. In the rest of the country temperatures rise steeply in the summer, and hot winds, called ‘Loo’, blow across the plains during the day, dust storms and thunder storms occasionally lower the temperature may be as much as 11¤C to 17¤C. Winters are cold with minimum mean temperature of about 4¤C in January.
The hot season in usually dry. Relative humidity in May and June varies from 50 percent in the morning to 25 percent or less in the afternoon. The temperature soars to 40¤C and beyond.