Light to moderate rain likely over country

Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by gusty wind is likely to occur at different parts of the country in the next 24 hours from 9:00 am on Wednesday, BSS reports.

According to the regular bulletin of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, "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 9:00 am on Thursday.”

The Day and night temperature is likely to remain nearly unchanged across 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, the BMD bulletin said.

Country's maximum temperature on Tuesday was recorded 36.5 degrees Celsius at Sayedpur and minimum temperature today was 24.0 degrees Celsius at Kutubdia.

Maximum rainfall for the last 24 hours till 6:00 am today was 102 millimeters (mm) at Srimangal. The sun will set at 6:31 pm on Wednesday and will rise at 5:34 am on Thursday in the capital.