Climate Talk

the "it wasn't even raining" detail from the Nepal glacier flood

Of everything in the GONOM post, this is what I can't shake: officials were caught off guard because it wasn't raining. Most of us connect floods with storms. Here a piece of glacier broke off at about 5,200 metres, dammed a river for a moment, and then the water burst through into Nepal. The Trishuli rose by up to 9 metres in 30 minutes.

My heart goes out to everyone in Rasuwa and downstream. And I think it's a reminder that warning systems in mountain areas can't only look at the sky.