Mild heat wave sweeping over country

Mild heat wave is sweeping over north, north-west, north-central and north-eastern divisions and other districts including the capital.

“Mild heat wave is sweeping over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions and the districts of Dhaka, Tangail, Faridpur, Kishoreganj, Cumilla, Feni and Kushtia and it may abate from some places”, said a met office forecast for the next twenty-four hours begins from 9am today.

Light to moderate rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Dhaka, Mymensingh, Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions with moderately heavy falls at places over the country.

Day temperature may fall slightly and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country, it said.

The low over north-west Bay and adjoining west central Bay off Andra-Odisha coast persists. The axis of monsoon trough runs through Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, the center of the low, Gangetic West Bengal to Assam across southern part of Bangladesh. Monsoon is fairly active over Bangladesh and moderate elsewhere over North Bay.

Country’s maximum temperature on Tuesday was recorded by 38.4 degree Celsius at Bogura while the lowest temperature today was recorded by 24.6 degree Celsius at Kutubdia.

Maximum rainfall for the last twenty-four hours till 6am today was recorded by 50 millimeters (mm) at Kutubdia.

The sun sets at 6:12 pm today and rises at 5:42 am tomorrow in the capital. (BSS)