Department to Upgrade Weather Stations, Commercialize Specialized Services

Kathmandu. The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology is to gradually transform the traditional weather measurement centers across the country into automatic weather centers. The draft white paper of the department mentions establishing 6 more radiosonde centers to measure upper atmosphere weather to increase data quality and continuity.

The department is now going to commercialize specialized weather services. A cost recovery system will be implemented for special weather and climate information to be provided targeting the agriculture, tourism, water resources, road construction, air aviation, and energy sectors.