राष्ट्रिय स्वतन्त्र पार्टीका सांसद मनिष झाले चुरेलाई संरक्षित क्षेत्र घोषणा गर्न माग गरेका छन् ।

शुक्रबार प्रतिनिधि सभा बैठकको विशेष समयमा बोल्दै सांसद झाले नेपालमा २० वटा संरक्षित क्षेत्र रहे पनि मधेश प्रदेशमा भने पूर्णरुपमा एउटा पनि संरक्षित क्षेत्र नरहेको बताएका हुन् ।

Met officials said that districts of Koshi, Madhesh and Bagmati provinces witnessed rainfall until Wednesday evening. Along with rainfall, some places also witnessed thunder and lightning.

Some places of Gandaki and Lumbini provinces also witnessed rainfall, said Sanjeev Adhikari, a meteorologist at the Meteorological Forecasting Division under the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. “Rainfall will occur on Wednesday night and Thursday as well,” Adhikari said. “Weather disturbances will continue until Friday.”

The Met office said that Janakpur received 15.6 millimetre rainfall on Wednesday, the highest in the country. Simara of Bara district recorded 10.3 mm rainfall followed by Okhaldhunga district at 10.1 mm. Kathmandu received 9.8 mm rainfall, Taplejung 8.5 mm and Dharan 1.8 mm.

Water vapour developed in Bay of Bengal has been moving towards the West from East and could cause rainfall in the Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces on Thursday, Met officials say.

The Forest Fire Detection and Monitoring System in Nepal, a government database for monitoring wildfire incidents, shows low risk of forest fire in Koshi, Madhesh and Bagmati provinces as they received rains on Wednesday.

According to the fire risk outlook forecast by the system, the rest of the provinces have moderate to high risk of fire incidents.

The two-day outlook was developed based on temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and precipitation data generated by high-impact Weather Assessment Toolkit-Nepal