Nepal - Severe weather (DRR, DHM) (ECHO Daily Flash of 07 July 2023)

Heavy monsoon rainfall, thunderstorms and lightning have been affecting most of the country, in particular eastern Nepal, over the last week, triggering several landslides, causing a number of severe weather-related incidents, particularly due to lightning, and floods that have resulted in casualties and damage.

Between 1-7 July, the Disaster Risk Reduction Portal (DRR) reports eight fatalities, of which four were due to landslides, three to lightning and one more to a heavy rainfall-related incident across eastern Nepal. DRR also reports a total of 12 injured people: five from lightning, four from heavy rainfalls and three more from landslides. A total of 48 families were affected across the area due to floods, landslides and severe weather-related incidents.

Over the next 24 hours, more heavy rainfall is forecast over the whole country, with locally very heavy rainfall over already affected eastern Nepal.