{"id":428264,"date":"2026-04-16T17:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=428264"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:02:29","slug":"monsoon-preparedness-24-hour-early-warning-and-flood-forecasting-services-afoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/04\/16\/428264.html","title":{"rendered":"Monsoon preparedness: 24-hour early warning and flood forecasting services afoot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu: <\/strong>In view of the upcoming monsoon, the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology has unveiled a comprehensive emergency action plan to reduce loss of life and property from potential disasters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/weather-forecast-division.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-418775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/weather-forecast-division.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/weather-forecast-division-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/weather-forecast-division-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department has stated that it would operate a 24-hour service by ensuring the effectiveness of weather forecasting, flood forecasting and the early warning system during the monsoon period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acting Director General of the Department, Archana Shrestha, informed that the weather forecasting division and flood forecasting division would remain active during 24 hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Routine weather forecasting up to three days would be made public from 8.00 am to 6.00 pm every day, while special bulletin would be published with early warning before 3-5 days in special situations&#8221;, he said, adding that alert map with colour indication would be published to impart timely information about vulnerable weather condition, including heavy rainfall, thunderstorms and snowfall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shrestha further informed that the on-time data received from automated hydrological and meteorological evaluation centres across the country would be published through the official website of the Department. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flood forecasting would be arranged three days before the main rivers, including Koshi, Gandaki, Karnali, Bagmati, Babai, and West Seti, for minimising flood-induced risks, it is stated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department has stated that it would operate a 24-hour service by ensuring the effectiveness of weather forecasting, flood forecasting and the early warning system during the monsoon period. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":418775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-428264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428265,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428264\/revisions\/428265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428264"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=428264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}