Heat and high humidity continued to make life difficult in different parts of the country for the past five days with the mercury shooting up to 40.3 Degrees Celsius in the western Chuadanga, sizzling it for the second consecutive day yesterday. The  capital was experiencing heat that falls in the category of a  mild heat wave with 36 C ruling the concrete jungle of the city for the second consecutive day yesterday, making it unbearable for everyone from children to elderly.
It was particularly difficult for the children to be out in the streets and going to schools in traffic congestion where automobile engines emitted more heat and the exhausts added further to the air pollution alongside dust. Even the rickshaw peddlers and auto-rickshaw drivers, as usual, were jacking up their fares with the excuse of heat and congestion. Those negotiating the crowded buses, hanging on the footboards and jostling for a place inside for standing, found the going get even more difficult amid heat and humidity.
But how long it would continue?  Bazlur Rashid, a senior meteorologist told The Independent that a westerly trough of a system over the West Bengal and its neighbouring areas including north-western and south-western Bangladesh turned screw over the country’s situation.
The system would run for at least two or three more days until the rains douse it, that is likely to drop as a manna from the sky from Thursday onwards, starting over the Sylhet and Mymensingh region on the Pahela Baishakh. It may start cooling the temperature a little with winds to get further reinforcements from Saturday for the following couple of days.
But it may be a see-saw situation as the heat may come back and go away with occasional rains.  But weather forecasts say the heat would rule the rest of April with stray rains cooling it briefly and this trend is likely to continue well into the middle of May.
In between, there could be a cyclone from a low pressure turning into a depression in the Bay of Bengal, which could trigger off a spell of rains and high winds, Rashid added. The present heat appears unbearable as it arrived suddenly after a mild weather until 6th of April, as the weather was suddenly replaced by a dry hot spell that turned severe since April 7.
Meanwhile, everyday life in Rajshahi , Rangpur and Jessore continued to be disrupted by the  heat pushing the mercury up there  to 39.7 C, 38C and 40.2C respectively. As opposed to people’s hope for a rain, the weather continued to remain dry even in Sylhet that had a good spell of rains earlier on Saturday and Sunday, keeping the mercury down. Sylhet experienced 34.4C maximum temperature yesterday.