Weather: Possibility of rain until Saturday

KATHMANDU: The weather will be partly to generally cloudy throughout the country with rain in most of places until Saturday.

Meteorologist at the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Ganga Nagarkoti, said it would be partly to generally cloudy with chances of light to moderate rain in most of the places of the country until Saturday as the monsoon is active.

“There is the possibility of heavy rain at one or two places of State 1, Madhesh, Bagmati, Gandaki and Lumbini States,” she said. The monsoon low-pressure trough is located around the normal position to the west and somewhat towards the north than the normal position towards the east.

The Department said that there are chances of light to moderate rain along with thunder and lightning at some places and of heavy rain at one or two places of State 1, Bagmati, Gandaki and the Lumbini States in the next 24 hours. It has urged one and all to adopt precaution as there is the risk of occurrence of soil erosion, landslide and debris flow as well as rise in water level in the rivers and seasonal rivulets in these regions, affecting the daily life and the transport services.

The weather will be partly to generally cloudy throughout the country with chances of light to moderate rain accompanied by thunder and lightning at some places tonight. There is possibility of heavy rain at one or two places of State 1, Madhesh State and Bagmati State.

The weather update of the Meteorological Forecasting Division shows that the minimum temperature in Kathmandu Valley was 19.5 degrees Celsius and the maximum 29.0 degrees Celsius in the last 24 hours.