24 million people impacted by monsoon flooding in India, Nepal and Bangladesh

By Eric Leister, AccuWeather meteorologist

August 22,2017, 11:35:36AM,EDT

 

 

The worst flooding in more than a decade across parts of Nepal, India and Bangladesh has impacted at least 24 million people.
More than 800 people have lost their lives across the three countries since the beginning of the monsoon season on June 1, according to The Guardian.
The death toll and numbers of those impacted are rising as flood waters recede and reveal the full extent of the destruction. However, additional downpours will threaten more lives and property as the monsoon continues.

Villagers stand inside their house destroyed by floodwaters at Katihar district, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, on Saturday 19 August 2017. Heavy monsoon rains have unleashed landslides and floods that killed hundreds of people in recent days and displaced millions more across northern India, southern Nepal and Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Aftab Alam Siddiqui)

Flooding in Nepal claimed at least 141 lives while the death toll in Bangladesh has climbed to at least 115.
The death toll rose about 250 in eastern Indian state of Bihar this weekend. During the worst of the flooding, almost all of the Kaziranga National Park, home to the endangered one-horned rhino, was submerged.
The park director, Satyendra Singh, said the flooding is the worst in three decades and has claimed the lives of at least 225 animals, including 15 of the rare rhinos.
In Nepal, a one-horned rhino was saved after being swept 42 km (26 miles) from the Chitwan National Park into northern India by flood waters, according to the BBC.
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Four other Rhinos are still missing, and a fifth was found dead in the flood waters of the park.
While conditions are currently slowly improving across Nepal, northeastern India and Bangladesh, scattered monsoon downpours are expected through midweek which could result in additional isolated flooding.
"However, the flood danger will once again heighten from Friday into Saturday across northern Myanmar and northeastern India as Hato arrives from southeastern China," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Kristina Pydynowski.
"While Hato will no longer be a typhoon but will still have plenty of moisture and capable of unleashing downpours that may trigger new or aggravate ongoing flooding," she said. It will not take much rainfall to ignite more flooding and mudslides in northeastern India.

Early indications are for more enhanced rainfall to return to Bangladesh, Nepal and northeastern India next week renewing the threat for dangerous flooding and mudslides.
Meanwhile, frequent downpours will focus on the area from northern Andhra Pradesh and western Odisha into eastern Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh this week.
These areas have dodged the worst flooding so far this season but will need to be on alert for flooding and travel delays.
The monsoon season typically runs from early June through early October across these areas.