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Parts of Bagmati may see more than 150 mm of rain, landing on districts still recovering from the August 26 Bhote Koshi floods.
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Its outer bands are forecast to bring moderate to heavy rain to Koshi, Madhesh, Bagmati, Gandaki and Lumbini from October 29 to 31, with snow possible in the high Himalaya. High-altitude trekking permits are suspended for those three days, and health units in seven provinces are on 24-hour alert.
Read the explainer · 4 min →Early-warning text messages helped evacuate more than 900,000 people during this year’s August and October disasters. In Bangkok, Nepal proposed regional satellite-based monitoring to make those warnings faster.
