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Cyclone Arnab brings persistent rain to Kathmandu Valley, disrupting daily life

📍 Nepal, NP·🕐 13h ago·2 outlets

Kathmandu, October 30 Persistent rainfall since Thursday night, triggered by the effects of Cyclone Arnab in the Bay of Bengal, has disrupted daily life in the Kathmandu Valley and several other parts of Nepal. Government and private-sector employees, as well as daily wage workers, have been affected by the rain. People who had to venture…

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Also reported by spotlightnepal.com (found in GDELT's list of news articles)

1h ago
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[Claude, second read] Rates it MEDIUM, not HIGH. Cyclone-linked persistent rain disrupting daily life is a disruption event, not a major disaster with deaths or mass displacement reported. Lowered from HIGH to MEDIUM.

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