Nepal sought China’s early warning months ago, got one less than 5 minutes before floods

Speaking to Reuters, Nepali officials stated that despite the meeting, Nepal did not receive the proper information from the Chinese side. “What we actually wanted from them, and still want, is if there are early movements of glaciers and early movements around that area, we would want to know a bit early,” said Sauhardra Joshi, a hydrologist at Nepal’s Flood Forecasting Division. Meanwhile, speaking to Bloomberg, the chief executive of Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, Dharam Raj Uprety said people did not even get five minutes of lead time before disaster struck. “We don’t have weather stations…