Light to Moderately Heavy downpours Likely over Country

Light to moderate rain or thundershowers with moderately heavy to heavy falls are likely to occur at several places of the country, a met office release said today.

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

Day temperature may rise slightly and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country, according to the release, reports BSS.

The axis of the monsoon trough runs through Punjab, Hariyana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal to Assam across central part of Bangladesh. One of its associated troughs extends up to North Bay.

Monsoon is fairly active over Bangladesh and moderate over North Bay.

The country’s maximum temperature on Wednesday was recorded by 34.5 degree Celsius jointly at Khulna and Chuadanga and minimum temperature today was recorded by 23.5 degree Celsius at Khulna.

The highest rainfall for the last twenty-four hours till 6:00 am today was recorded by 105 millimeters (mm) at Khulna.

Today’s sunset at 06-50 PM and tomorrow’s sunrise at 05-18 AM at Dhaka.