KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 13
The maximum temperature throughout the country is likely to be more than average and rainfall less than average in most parts of the country this winter.
The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology stated that Sudurpaschim Province and the districts of Lumbini Province, except Rukum West, Rolpa, and Pyuthan, the central and eastern districts of Gandaki Province, including Lamjung, Syangja, Tanahun, and Gorkha, among others, Dolakha of Bagmati Province and the northern districts of Province-1, including Taplejung, Sankhuwasabha, and Solukhumbu will experience average minimum temperature whereas the rest of the regions will experience more than average temperature.
The Department under the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation has made public the estimation of rainfall and temperature during winter (December 1 to March 28), informed Senior Meteorologist at the Department Indira Kandel.
According to the department, most places of the country are likely to receive less than average rainfall in the winter.
The possibility of less than average rainfall is 45 to 55 per cent in the Tarai districts of Province 1, including Taplejung, Panchthar, Tehrathum, Ilam, Jhapa, Morang, and Sunsari, the western parts of Madhes Province including Parsa, Bara, and Rautahat, among other districts, and Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Lalitpur, Nuwakot, Makawanpur, the central and southern districts such as Kaski, Syangja and Parbat of Gandaki Province, most of the districts of Lumbini Province and Darchula, Baitadi, Dadeldhura, Doti, Kanchanpur and Kailali in Sudurpaschim Province.
Similarly, the possibility of less than average rainfall is 35 to 45 per cent in the remaining parts of the country except in Bajhang and Bajura districts of Sudurpaschim Province, north-western part of Humla, Mugu and Dolpa in Karnali Province.
Likewise, the maximum temperature is likely to be more than average throughout the country this winter, meteorologist Kandel said.
The possibility of maximum temperature being more than the average is 55 to 65 per cent in the western parts of Humla and Mugu of Karnali Province and Bajura district of Sudurpaschim.
The chances of maximum temperature being over the average temperature is 45 to 55 per cent in Solukhumbu and Ilam, Jhapa, Morang, and Sunsari of Province No 1, in Kavrepalanchowk, Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Nuwakot, Makawanpur, and Chitwan of Bagmati Province, Parsa and Saptari districts of Madhes Province, most of the districts of Gandaki Province except the north-eastern ones, most parts of Lumbini and the eastern and northern parts of Karnali Province.
The possibility of maximum temperature rising above the average is 35 to 45 per cent in the other regions of the country.
A version of this article appears in the print on December 14, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
