Rainfall
Heavy rainfall in Patuakhali due to Asani
The coastal areas of Patuakhali district have been experiencing rains since Sunday morning, due to the impact of severe Cyclonic storm ‘Asani’ that is brewing over the Bay.
The local Met office recorded 4.4 mm of rainfalls around 9 am on Monday.
The local Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office asked the farmers to harvest their paddy as soon as possible to mitigate damage.
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It was centered at noon on Monday about 1105 Kms Southwest of Chattogram port, 1045 kms Southwest of Cox’s Bazar port, 1015 kms South-Southwest of Mongla port and 1000 kms South-Southwest of Payra port, said a Met Office bulletin.
It is likely to move in a northwesterly direction, it said.
Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist distant warning signal No 2.
This year’s Dengue fatalities rise to 100 as 2 more die in 24 hrs
Dengue claimed two more lives in Bangladesh while 119 new patients were hospitalized in 24 hours till Tuesday morning, health authorities said.
With the fresh deaths, the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease this year rose to 100, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
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Ninety-two people died in Dhaka division alone, two each in Chattogram, Mymensingh and Khulna divisions and one each in Rajshahi and Barishal divisions.
Twenty-eight new patients are undergoing treatment in hospitals in Dhaka while the remaining 91 cases have been reported from outside the division.
Some 256 patients diagnosed with dengue are receiving treatment in the country as of Tuesday.
Of them, 180 patients are receiving treatment at different hospitals in the capital while the remaining 76 were listed outside Dhaka.
Since January, some 27,779 patients have been admitted to different hospitals with dengue in the country. So far, 27,423 dengue patients have left hospitals after recovery, said DGHS.
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Experts attribute the unusually high dengue cases during the dry season, mainly in Dhaka, to the prolonged rainy season, sporadic rainfall, and high humidity and temperature, Aedes mosquitoes' reproductive and behavioural changes caused by climate change and lack of people’s awareness and poor controlling measures by the two city corporations of the capital.
They also said the climate conditions of Bangladesh are becoming more favourable for the Aedes mosquitos to prevail in all seasons with high or low intensity mainly for the increase in temperature and breeding sources.
At least 10 killed in Tennessee flash floods; dozens missing
Catastrophic flooding in Middle Tennessee left at least ten people dead and dozens missing Saturday as record-shattering rainfall washed away homes and rural roads, authorities said.
Business owner Kansas Klein watched in horror from a bridge Saturday morning as cars and entire houses were swept down a road in Waverly, a town of about 4,500 people that Klein, 48, has called home for more than half his life. Two girls who were holding on to a puppy and clinging to a wooden board swept past, far too fast for Klein and other onlookers to go down and grab hold of them.
After being told by authorities to go back, Klein returned a couple hours later, shocked that the floodwaters had almost entirely receded and aghast at the destruction that was left behind.
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“It was amazing how quick it came and how quick it left,” Klein said.
Klein said his restaurant, a decade-old New York-style pizzeria, was still standing, but the morning deluge of between 10 and 12 inches (25 to 30 centimeters) of rain in Humphreys County had caused floodwaters to reach 7 feet (2.1 meters) inside the eatery, rendering it a total loss.
After leaving his restaurant, Klein walked to the nearby public housing homes and heard yelling. A man had just recovered a baby’s body from one of the homes. Other bodies would soon follow.
“I’m looking at my restaurant, thinking how horrible it was that I lost my restaurant and then I walk around the corner and see someone’s baby dead — my restaurant doesn’t mean a whole lot right now,” Klein told the Associated Press in a phone interview Saturday night, still in shock as he watched a local news channel air footage he had recorded on his phone hours ago.
The low-income homes — dozens of block buildings known as Brookside — appeared to have borne the brunt of the flash flood, Klein said.
“It was devastating: buildings were knocked down, half of them were destroyed,” Klein said. “People were pulling out bodies of people who had drowned and didn’t make it out.”
Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis told news outlets more than 30 people have been reported missing. It was not immediately clear how many had lived at Brookside, located about 60 miles (96 kilometers) west of Nashville.
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Two of the bodies recovered were toddlers who had been swept away from their father, Davis told WSMV-TV.
Waverly couple Cindy Dunn, 48, and her husband Jimmy, 49, were rescued from their attic by a crew who used a bulldozer to reach them.
“Hell. That’s what we had to go through,” Cindy Dunn told The Tennessean.
She said her husband woke her up Saturday, telling her that floodwaters had pushed her car to their backyard. Eventually the water in their house rose to at least 6 feet (1.8 meters) high, forcing them to the attic. Dunn said the rooftop wasn’t an option.
“My husband is dealing with cancer. He’s going through chemotherapy. And I am an amputee. So there was no going anywhere besides the attic,” Dunn said.
Dunn said their home and neighboring houses “are gone.”
Just to the east of Waverly, the town of McEwen was pummeled with about 17 inches (43 centimeters) of rain in less than a day, prompting water rescues, road closures, and communications disruptions. That rainfall total smashed the state’s 24-hour record of 13.6 inches (34.5 centimeters) from 1982, according to the National Weather Service Nashville, though Saturday’s numbers would have to be confirmed.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee tweeted on Saturday, “Tennesseans, please stay cautious of rising floodwaters caused by heavy rainfall in parts of Middle TN. We are actively working with emergency response officials & first responders as they support Tennesseans in flooded areas.”
The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency activated its emergency operations center and said agencies that include the Tennessee National Guard, the state Highway Patrol, and Fire Mutual Aid were responding to the flooding. In a bulletin, TEMA called the situation “dangerous and evolving” and urged people to avoid travel in the affected counties.
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Klein isn’t sure for what the future holds for his family or his town.
He also isn’t sure what happened to the two girls and the puppy he witnessed who had been clinging on to the board. He heard that a girl and a puppy had been rescued downstream, and that the other girl was also saved, but he wasn’t sure it was them.
“This is the third 100-hundred year flood that we’ve had in about 10 years,” referencing 2010 and 2019 floods. “But this is 100 times worse than either one of them was. ... The last report I saw was there were 31 missing. This is a small town so the odds are I know most of those people.”
15 mm rain submerge parts of Dhaka, likely to continue
Torrential monsoon rain swamped many parts of the capital on Monday, disrupting public movement and triggering a traffic chaos.
According to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, 12mm of rain was recorded in the last 24 hours in Dhaka until 6am Monday.
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Besides, 3 mm rain was recorded from 6 am till 3 pm on Monday afternoon.
As usual, this was enough to shatter the tall claims of monsoon preparedness made by the city's municipal corporations, as several areas faced waterlogging problems.
The sorry state of Mirpur,Rampura and Badda remained the same as they were the hardest hit areas of waterlogging and people of those areas were seen wading through ankle-deep water to reach their destination showers relented.
The other affected areas are Sewrapara, Kazipara part of Begum Rokeya Sarani, Agargaon crossing, Bijoy Sarani crossing, Kalabagan, Farmgate , Shegunbagicha, Bijoy Nagari, Motsho Bhaban , Green Road and Fakirapool areas have also been inundated, reported our correspondents.
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A number of vehicles remained stranded at different city streets due to waterlogging since morning.
Bangladesh Meteorological Department couldn’t provide any relieving information as they predicted the rainfall to continue across the country including Dhaka.
According to the Met Office website, light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at most places over Khulna, Barishal and Chattogram divisions and at many places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions with moderately heavy to very heavy falls at isolated places over the southern part of the country.
Depression in Bay: Rain across Bangladesh continues; more expected
Many parts of the country are experiencing light to moderate rain which is likely to continue for the next 24 hours due to a depression over the Bay, the Met Office said Friday.
Heavy to very heavy rainfall activities likely
Due to a well-marked low over the Northwest Bay and adjoining West-central Bay heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to occur at places over Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions during the next 48 hours commencing 10 am on Thursday.
Low over Bay intensified into well-marked low
The low over central parts of the Bay of Bengal moved north-northwestwards, intensified into a well-marked low and now lies over West-central Bay and adjoining area, according to Bangladesh Meteorological Department .
Rain, thundershower likely: Met office
Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on Monday forecast rain and thunde showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind over a few places across the country in the next 24 hours starting from 9 am.
Light to moderate rain likely: Met office
Bangladesh Meteorological Department on Wednesday forecast light to moderate rain over parts of the country for next 24 hours starting from 6pm today.
Rainfall activities may decrease in next 2 days
Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on Thursday forecast that rainfall activities may decrease over the next two days.