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Mild heat wave may continue


Published : 23 Jul 2023 09:43 PM

Mild heat wave was sweeping over the districts of Rajshahi, Dhaka, Panchagarh, Moulvibazar and Feni on Sunday and it may continue.

The meteorological department made this forecast at its regular Met bulletin on Sunday.

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

Day and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country.

The axis of monsoon trough runs through Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Gangetic West Bengal to Assam across southern part of Bangladesh. Monsoon is less active over Bangladesh and moderate over North Bay.

Country’s maximum temperature on Saturday was recorded by 36.8 degree celsius at Rajshahi and minimum temperature today was recorded by 25.2 degree celsius at Sylhet.

Maximum rainfall for the last twenty-four hours till 6am on Sunday was recorded by 42 millimeters (mm) across the country.

Sunday’s sunset at Dhaka at 06-46 PM and today sunrise at 05-24 AM.