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Monsoon likely here next week
KATHMANDU, MAY 31 -
The much awaited monsoon rains that account for more than 80 percent of the total annual rainfall in Nepal are likely to hit the country early next week, weathermen said on Monday.
The four-month rainy season generally begins on June 10 with the eastern part of the country recording first showers. Within a week, the monsoon covers the whole nation.
The formation of the monsoon trough (elongated part of low atmospheric pressure) in the eastern Tarai, responsible for the advancement of the monsoon from India’s Bay of Bengal to Nepal, is favourable in the past few days, according to Mani Ratna Shakya, Chief of Meteorological Forecasting Division under the Ministry of Environment. “This year’s monsoon rains are predicted to be more than average,” he said.
The monsoon hit the Kerala coast in India on Monday with metereologists forecasting thundershowers across the region over the week.
Due to the worst monsoon in 2009 — the driest recorded in a decade — summer crop yield plummeted by 30 to 35 percent, causing a shortage of food grains and double-digit inflation. Last year’s monsoon was late by two weeks than the usual date.
Posted on: 2010-06-01 08:05
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