Cold wave affects life in Mahottari
Even the livestock and crops are negatively impacted with declined temperature coupled with cold wave, fog and cloud, according to Birendra Sharma from Jalewhwor-7.
JALESHWOR: People in Mahottari district have been badly affected by the cold wave continued for five days in the district. The decreasing temperature has taken a toll on people’s movement.
Even the livestock and crops are negatively impacted with declined temperature coupled with cold wave, fog and cloud, according to Birendra Sharma from Jalewhwor-7.
People’s movement is sparse at district headquarters, Jaleshwor. The vehicles are also operated in less number.
In the wake of rising cold, the sales of warm clothes has however surged in the market.
Similarly, a tea seller Umesh Sah from Jaleshwor Municipality-1 informed that people throng tea shops to take hot soup and scalded tea. Selling tea is on rise, he shared.
Similarly, district health offices and hospital have witnessed dismal visit of patients.
The locals began making fire to keep themselves warm. The decline in temperature has hit hard the children, elderly ones and women in postpartum.
