Nov 2015 ,
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Happy Dashain, but rainy Dashain ?
We always think of Dashain as a warm and sunny period, with gentle breeze to fly kites. But some years, it has been rainy also: yes, really a rainy Dashain.
Thanks to TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission) which just got replaced by GPM (Global Precipiation Measurement), we have good record of spatial distribution of precipitation over Nepal as well. This data is available for free download using the NASA Giovanni portal. Here, I have used the TRMM 3B42 gridded daily rainfall data to generate the accumulated rainfall over Dashain festival from 1998 to 2014 over the region (26.125 N-30.625 N, 79.625 E-88.375 E). For the given time-span, the Wet Dashain mostly span from the eastern to central part of Nepal, due to cyclones from south-east. We will have more data in future to fully understand the climatology of rainfall over Dashain, till then ...
1998 Wet Dashain
1999 Wet Dashain (Eastern Nepal)
2000 Normal Dashain
2001 Normal Dashain
2002 Partially wet Dashain
2003 Wet Dashain (Central and Eastern Nepal)
2004 Partially wet Dashain
2005 Partially wet Dashain
2006 Wet Dashain (Central and Eastern Nepal)
2007 Partially wet Dashain
2008 Partially wet Dashain
2009 Partially wet Dashain
2010 Partially wet Dashain
2011 Normal Dashain
2012 Normal Dashain
2013 Wet Dashain
2014 Partially wet Dashain