The Fault in our Sporadic Weather Patterns
By: Munema ZahidThere isn’t much Pakistanis do better than prescribing natural remedies, so it came as no surprise when sage advice to inhale clove steam and apply olive oil floated around on social media in the first days of April. What was surprising, however, was the reason behind it: the sudden spell of dry weather entrancing Lahore, Islamabad and their adjacent cities. It seemed as though Mother Nature was playing an elaborate trick. A cloud of complaints rose over central Punjab, with masses of people claiming afflictions that ranged from persistent nosebleeds to aggravated allergies (their prevalence even gave rise to Internet memes, perhaps the only other thing we do best). But what might have been considered to be nothing more than a symptom of our predictably variable weather, ma...
