Staff Reporter:
Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall at some places in four divisions today.
“Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at most places over Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and moderately heavy to very heavy falls at some places of the same divisions,” a met release said yesterday.
The axis of monsoon trough runs through Punjab, Hariyana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal to As-sam across central part of Bangladesh. One of its associated troughs extends up to North Bay.
Monsoon is active over Bangladesh and moderate over North Bay.
Country’s maximum temperature on Tuesday was recorded 35.7 degrees Celsius at Dinajpur and mini-mum temperature yesterday was 24.8 degrees Celsius at Bandarban.
Country’s maximum rainfall for the last 24 hours till 6am yesterday was recorded 270 millimeters at Cox’s Bazar.
Day and night temperature may fall slightly over the country.
The sun sets at 6:42pm yesterday and rises at 05:28 AM today in the capital.
