Light to moderate rain likely over country

The city dwellers experiencing intermittent rain since Saturday morning. The picture was taken from Karwan Bazar on 19 June.
Dipu Malakar

Light to moderate rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur today, Sunday, at most places over Dhaka and seven other divisions, Bangladesh Meteorological Department forecasted.

According to the weather report, Rangpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions also would see moderately heavy to very heavy falls.

Citing the synoptic situation, the report said the axis of monsoon trough runs through Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal to Assam across central part of Bangladesh.

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

Country’s maximum temperature on Saturday was recorded by 32.0 degree Celsius at Sylhet and minimum temperature today was recorded by 23.3 degree Celsius at Madaripur.

Maximum rainfall for the last 24 hours till 6:00am today was recorded by 111 millimetres (mm) at Gopalganj.