Bangladesh Meteorology Department (BMD) on Wednesday predicted light to moderate rain or thundershowers in different parts of the country.
According to the Met office bulletin, light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Mymensingh, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Rajshahi, Khulna, Barishal and Dhaka divisions with moderately heavy to heavy falls at several places over the country till 9am tomorrow.
Day and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country.
The axis of monsoon trough runs through Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal to Assam across central part of Bangladesh.
One of its associated troughs extends up to Northeast Bay.
Monsoon is fairly active over Bangladesh and moderate elsewhere over North Bay.
Country’s maximum temperature on Tuesday was recorded 36.5 degrees Celsius at Sayedpur and minimum temperature on Wednesday was 24.0 degrees Celsius at Kutubdia.
Maximum rainfall for the last 24 hours till 6:00am on Wednesday was 102 millimeters (mm) at Srimangal.
The sun sets at 06:31 PM on Wednesday and rises at 5:34 AM today (Tuesday) in the capital.