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Cyclone ‘Arnab’ likely to trigger heavy rainfall today

📍 Nepal, NP·🕐 13h ago·2 outlets

KATHMANDU: Nepal is bracing for widespread rainfall and snowfall from today as Cyclone ‘Arnab’ brings the prospect of heavy to extremely heavy downpours across several provinces, prompting authorities to urge the public to remain alert. Rainfall is expected as the effects of a powerful cyclone ‘Arnab’, which originated in the Bay of Bengal and struck…

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

1h ago
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[Claude, second read] Rates it MEDIUM, not HIGH. forecast of heavy rain and snow from a cyclone; a weather warning rather than a realised disaster yet, with no casualty or displacement figures given. Lowered from HIGH to MEDIUM.

13h ago
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