Following the severe cold till Sunday with north-eastern hill town Srimangal recording the day’s lowest temperature of 6.5 degrees Celsius and Tetulia to the north-west recording 6.7 degrees C, the temperature is likely to rise in the next two to three days. However, the shivering cold may return from Friday, Met office sources said. The mercury started plummeting from Thursday night, making life miserable for people living in the open in Dhaka city. The char lands of Kurigram to the north recorded 5 degrees Celsius, the lowest so far along with north-western Tetulia on Saturday.
The temperature, however, rose there a bit from 5.5 degrees C to 6.7 degrees C on Sunday. In Dhaka, the temperature rose from its lowest 11.8 degrees C on Saturday to 12 degrees C on Sunday. The city’s maximum temperature was, however, 22.8 degrees C, down from Saturday’s 23.4 degrees C.
Bazlur Rashid, a meteorologist at the Dhaka Met Office, told The Independent that after spreading to most areas of the country, including the coastal cities of Barisal and Khulna, where the mercury dropped to 8.5 degrees C and 10 degrees C respectively, the temperatures will start rising in the next two to three days. As it was less foggy on Sunday, with a bright sun overhead, people did not feel the biting cold ranging from mild, moderate to severe from Srimangal to south-western Chuadanga, which recorded 6.6 degrees C, Rashid said. He added that due to a western disturbance over New Delhi, the temperature was moving up and down in Bangladesh.