• Met Office insists recent heavy rains in northern areas do not qualify as ‘cloudburst’ • PDMA official says terminology used to describe deluge causing widespread destruction in limited time AS EXTREME weather events grow more frequent and intense in Pakistan, a troubling gap has emerged not just in the country’s response to these phenomena, but also in terms of institutional coordination and data credibility. … Continue reading Analysis: Politics of ‘cloudburst’: why officials are at odds over rainfall predictions