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There is a possibility of light rain with thunder and lightning due to the effect of the westerly winds today. According to Barun Paudel, senior meteorologist at the Weather Forecast Division of the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, the pre-monsoon season is active leading to light rainfall with thunder and lightning in the past few days. The months of March, April and May are considered pre-monsoon. The westerly wind is active with the sun shining throughout the day, leading to light rain with thunder and lightning in the evening. There is hence possibility of light rainfall in the hilly areas of the country in the evening today, Paudel said. The weather forecast bulletin issued by the division also states that the weather will be generally clear in the hilly areas of the country today afternoon. The minimum temperature of Kathmandu today is 10 degrees Celsius and the maximum temperature is 25 degrees Celsius.

Five persons died and 24 others were injured when a bus met with an accident at Kuhibhir in Phikkal-4 of Sindhuli on Sunday. The District Police Office, Sindhuli said that the identities of the deceased have not been established yet. The ill-fated bus (Ba 2 Kha 6596) carrying 29 persons were heading towards Kathmandu from Rumjatar of Okhaldhunga when the incident occurred. Police said that they are looking into the case.

The hilly region in the country is likely to be partly to generally cloudy today due to a slight impact of the westerly wind, according to the Meteorological Forecasting Division of the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. The Division said that most of the hilly belts of Gandaki, Lumbini, Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces would remain partly to generally cloudy. The Division also said that light rain coupled with thunder and lightning is likely to take place at one or two places of the hilly regions. Tonight, it will be partly cloudy in the high hilly and mountainous regions of Koshi and Gandaki Provinces while the weather will be fair in the rest of the country. Light rain or thunder and lightning are likely in one or two places of Gandaki Province this evening, meteorologist Barun Paudel said.  

A Shree Airlines plane bound to Bhairahawa has been diverted to Kathmandu after it showed a fire warning signal on Thursday. The aircraft made a successful landing in the Tribhuvan International Airport and the situation of flight is normal, said the TIA’s spokesperson Tek Nath Sitaula. The aircraft was diverted from Dhading district after a crew member informed the air traffic control tower in Kathmandu about the manifestation of a spark of fire in the engine, said the airport officials.