THE HIMALAYAN UNIVERSE

Rainfall Update: Rainfall declining in coming days (June 24-27, 2013) Please see the visualization of rainfall intensities in the form of maps in the following pages.  The colored patches are the areas where heavy rainfall occurred in the past and is expected in the coming week. The red colored areas are where minimum rains and the purple ones are the areas where maximum rains occurred. You will see two kinds of maps (a) forecast for June 27, and (b) trend of rainfall. 1. Forecasts Forecast for June 27, 2013 (72 hrs from June 24, 2013, 0600 UTC) This is rainfall prediction for June 27, UTC 1200. Not so heavy rains expected in the region. The red colored areas represent average 100mm and yellow colored dots represent 200mm rainfall for  May 27, 2013 at 1200 UTC. 2. Recent rainfall trend 24 hours accumulated rainfall on June 24 by UTC 0600 Minimum 35 mm, central region of Nepal,  India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Cambodia and has almost no variabili...

Remote Sensing Satellite Data Visual Analysis of the Sun Koshi Landslide  Indra Sharan KC National Remote Sensing Center of Indian Space Research Organization, Government of India published Satellite Images of recent Landslide on Sun Koshi River in Nepal. Huge peace of mountain slope The landslide had taken place on August 2, 2014. Nepal Army had been using light explosives, heavy equipment and muscle power to clear open channel to release water from the 2.36 km long, 200 m wide lake with a surface area of 44 Ha formed from the 5.5 million cubic meter debris deposit on Sunkoshi's bend in Jure. The landslide killed 156 people and destroyed 33 houses; a 2.5 KW hydropower plant in Sunkoshi Bazar; intake structure of 10KW Sunkoshi hydro in Lamosangu; transmission lines and towers and about 1.5 KM of road in Ramche and Jure. There was 67 MW of power less in the grid, due to this landslide which added extra 4 hours of load shedding in the regular load shedding of daily 10 hours. Si...