April 12: The Meteorological Forecasting Division under the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology has predicted that the weather will be partly cloudy in the hill areas if Koshi province and fair in rest of the country. It is due to the partial influence of westerly wind and local wind in the country, the division claimed.    
According to the division, the weather will be partly cloudy in the hill areas and fair in the rest of the country this afternoon. Light rain with lightning is likely to occur at a few places of the hill regions of Koshi, Bagmati and Gandaki provinces and at one or two places of the rest of the hill areas.    
Light snowfall is also likely to occur at some places of the high hills and mountainous regions. Tonight, the weather will be partly cloudy in hill regions of Koshi Province and fair in rest of the country.    
The weatherly change is likely to partially affect daily life as well as agriculture, health, tourism, mountaineering, road and air transport in the region, the division said, calling for adopting necessary alert measures. -- RSS