“It is the rising humidity and not rising temperature that is making people feel terrible heat,” said KD Shrestha, senior meteorologist at the division. [break]
The humidity in Kathmandu is particularly high at nights and in the mornings, compared to daytime. This is why the nights feel warmer.
The relative humidity recorded at 6:30 am Wednesday was 92 percent, while the same was 48 percent at 5:30 p.m.
“The humidity will rise for the next three weeks until monsoon arrives,” Shrestha added.
He further said that humidity this year isn´t worse than previous years.
“This is normal pre-monsoon phenomenon. There is a lot of water vapor in the atmosphere, which will build up until monsoon starts,” he said.
But the mercury levels aren´t forgiving either. The maximum temperature in Kathmandu on Wednesday was 31.5 degree Celsius, while the minimum temperature was 20.6 degree Celsius. On the same day last year, the maximum temperature was 32.8 degree Celsius and the minimum temperature was 18.4 degree Celsius in Kathmandu.
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