Rain likely to continue for few days

KATHMANDU: The Meteorological Forecasting Division has said that the current rainfall being occurred nationwide would continue few more days.

The current rainfall is the combination of the westerly winds and the eastern monsoon process and it would continue for a few days more, it said. The present rainfall is the effects of the pre-monsoon process. Generally, monsoon begins on June 10 and ends on September 23 in Nepal.

The wind enters Nepal from the far west originating from the Mediterranean and passing through Pakistan and Himachal Pradesh of India. It has started blowing to central and eastern Nepal and is raining in most of the country’s hilly and Terai region.