The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority has appealed to people to seek information about weather warnings and alerts when traveling to high-altitude and mountainous areas and not to travel alone.
What you should know
Four people have died in Manang and Mustang due to flooding in the last two days. Four people died in Manang and Kaski due to flooding on Kartik 28 and 29. Similarly, a Spanish citizen has been brought to Kathmandu for treatment, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority has informed.
According to the weather forecast issued by the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, there is a possibility of light to moderate rain and snowfall in some places in the high hilly and mountainous areas of some provinces on Kartik 20 and 21.
The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology is conducting a detailed analysis of the possibility of two low-pressure systems formed in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea causing rain/snowfall in Nepal from Tuesday to Friday, and the Authority has also received information that the forecast will be issued soon.
The Authority has stated that the aforementioned weather forecast and the rate of death or injury due to avalanches are increasing in the context of the current tourism season and a large number of domestic and foreign tourists are traveling to the high hilly and mountainous areas for mountaineering, trekking and other purposes.
Therefore, before embarking on a journey to the Himalayan and high-mountainous areas, the Authority has appealed to people to check the weather forecast issued by the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology and the advance notices and alerts published by this authority based on that, to obtain information about the risk of getting sick, to make necessary preparations, and if they get sick, to stop the journey and go down to the lower reaches for treatment, and not to travel alone.
