Pakistan experienced its "wettest April since 1961," receiving more than twice as much rain as usual for the month, the country's weather agency has said. April rainfall was recorded at 59.3 millimeters, "excessively above" the normal average of 22.5 millimeters, Pakistan's meteorology department said on May 3. Pakistan is increasingly vulnerable to unpredictable weather, as well as often destructive monsoon rains that usually arrive in July. In 2022, a third of Pakistan was submerged by unprecedented monsoon rains that displaced millions of people and cost the country $30 billion in damage and economic losses, according to the World Bank.
Pakistan Records 'Wettest April' In More Than 60 Years
A boy rescues belongings from a flooded home after heavy rains in Peshawar, Pakistan, in April.