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Strategies for Cooling Your Roof During Intense Summer Heat
As summer temperatures soar, the heat can make indoor living conditions uncomfortable, particularly for those living on upper floors. The roof, directly exposed to the sun, plays a significant role in how heat affects the home. However, there are multiple strategies homeowners can implement to keep their roofs and homes cooler during intense heat waves.
Tips to Keep Your Roof Cool During the Scorching Heat of Summer
Selecting Appropriate Roofing Materials
Choosing the right roofing materials is crucial in climates that experience intense summer heat, like Bangladesh. Materials that reflect solar energy rather than absorb it, such as metal, tiles, or specially designed reflective shingles, can significantly reduce heat absorption. These materials help maintain lower roof temperatures, which translates into cooler indoor environments.
Utilizing Cool Roof Coatings
Cool roof coatings are designed to reflect more sunlight and absorb less heat than standard roof surfaces. Applying these coatings can lower roof surface temperature dramatically, reducing heat transferred into the home and prolonging the lifespan of the roofing materials. These reflective coatings are an effective solution for homeowners looking to retrofit existing roofs without complete replacement.
Read more: Tips to Keep Home Cool in Summer Without AC
Enhancing Insulation
Insulation plays a critical role in minimizing heat transfer from the roof to the home's interior. Effective attic or roof space insulation, using materials such as fiberglass, foam board, or cellulose, acts as a thermal barrier. This barrier helps stabilize indoor temperatures, making homes more comfortable during both day and night.
Rains to drench Bangladesh
A reprieve from the sweltering summer heat is on the way, as showers are likely to drench the eight divisions of Bangladesh in the next 24 hours, the weather department said Friday.
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Rajshahi, Rangpur and Mymensingh divisions, according to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD).
A mild heatwave is sweeping through the districts of Rajshahi, Khulna, Bagerhat, and Satkhira, and it may ease in some places.
Read: Rain likely to usher in pleasant weather
The highest temperature today was recorded at 37 degrees Celsius in Khulna's Mongla, while the minimum temperature was 22.4 degrees in Rajshahi.
The maximum rainfall was recorded at 55mm in Chattogram's Feni in the last 24 hours till 6pm Friday.
Day and night temperatures may remain nearly unchanged, the BMD said.
Brace for showers in next 24 hours!
Expect a brief reprieve from the sweltering summer heat, as the weatherman has predicted rain or thunder showers in parts of Bangladesh in the next 24 hours.
“The showers are likely to occur at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Mymensingh, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions and the region of Cumilla," the Bangladesh Meteorology Department said in a weather bulletin on Friday.
"Weather may remain mainly dry with partly cloudy sky elsewhere over the country,” the department said.
READ: Showers with intense lightning in parts of Bangladesh
However, a mild heat wave is currently sweeping over Khulna division and the districts of Gopalgonj, Rangamati, Chandpur, Moulvibazar, Rajshahi, Barishal & Patuakhali may continue, the bulletin said.
Day and night temperatures may remain nearly unchanged over the country.
The maximum temperature was recorded at 38 degrees Celsius in Jashore in the past 24 hours, the bulletin said.