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Mild heat wave sweeps Dhaka, some other parts of country; May spread further
Mild heat wave is sweeping over Khulna, Rajshahi divisions and Dhaka, Madaripur, Rangpur, Dinajpur, Nilphamari, Moulvibazar, Chandpur, Feni and Patuakhali districts and it may spread, according to Bangladesh Metrological Department (BMD).
Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country having chances rain or thunder showers at one or two places over Sylhet division, said a BMD bulletin.
Besides, day and night temperature may rise slightly over the country.
A low pressure area is likely to be formed over Southeast Bay, it added.
Rain, thundershowers likely in Dhaka, Ctg, Khulna and other divisions: Met Office
Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on Friday predicted rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind in different parts of the country over 24 hours, starting at 9 am Friday.
“Rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Dhaka, Mymensingh, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram & Sylhet divisions with hails at isolated places,” A Met Office bulletin reads.
Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy skies elsewhere over the country, the bulletin added.
Meanwhile, both the day and night temperature will rise slightly all over the country, according to the bulletin.
A trough of westerly low lies over India’s West Bengal and adjoining areas.
A low-pressure area is likely to form over the south Bay of Bengal around May 7 and it is likely to intensify, said a special bulletin from the Met Office on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted that a cyclonic storm brewing in the southeast Bay of Bengal will proceed towards the north-northwest until May 10 and then recurve towards the south-east Bangladesh and adjoining Myanmar coasts on May 11.
A cyclonic circulation is likely to develop over the southeast Bay of Bengal around May 6 which is likely to develop into a severe cyclonic storm, according to IMD's model guidance.
According to IMD, the low pressure area formed under the influence of cyclonic circulation may concentrate into a depression over the same area around May 8.
"And thereafter there is a good possibility of its intensification into a cyclonic storm while moving nearly northward towards central Bay of Bengal," the IMD bulletin added.
The IMD Global Forecast System is indicating a north-northwestwards movement of the storm till 10th and then a "northeast awards recurvature towards southeast Bangladesh and adjoining Myanmar coasts.”
Met Office predicts rain in Barishal, Ctg, Sylhet; heatwave to continue in Dhaka
Amid sweltering heat in most parts of the country, Bangladesh Metrological Department (BMD) has predicted rains and thundershowers at one or two places in Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in 24 hours from 9 am on Monday (April 17, 2023).“Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country, having chances of rain or thunder showers at one or two places over Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions,” said a Met office bulletin.
Severe heat wave is sweeping over Khulna division and Dhaka, Faridpur, Gopalgang, Manikganj, Narayanganj, Rajshahi and Pabna districts.
Read More: Khulna reeling under severe heatwave
Mild to moderate heat wave is sweeping elsewhere over the country & it may continue.
Day and night temperatures may remain nearly unchanged over the country.
A trough of low lies over West Bengal and adjoining area. Seasonal low lies over South Bay.
Read more: Bangladesh: Heatwave may abate in 24 hrs
No respite from heat wave in 7 days: BMD
There seems to be no respite from the sizzling heat as Bangladesh Metrological Department (BMD) has predicted that the prevailing mild to moderate heat wave condition in the country will continue in the next seven days.
The BMD issued an alert message in this regard on Tuesday (April 11, 2023).
The people of the country continue to experience the scorching heat with maximum temperature recording 39.2 degree Celsius in Chuadanga and 16. 5 degree Celsius minimum temperature in Tentulia today. Dhaka’s temperature has been recorded at 37.5 degree Celsius.
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According to a Met office bulletin, “ Mild to moderate heat wave is sweeping over Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal & Chattogram divisions and Dinajpur, Nilphamari, Kurigram and Nertakona districts and it may continue.”
Day temperature may rise slightly and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country, it added.
The Department of Agricultural Extension has provided guidelines to protect crops and fruit amidst the ongoing mild heatwave across the country.
Read More: People suffer as heat wave sweeps parts of country.
The US leads the world in weather catastrophes. Here’s why
The United States is Earth's punching bag for nasty weather.
Blame geography for the U.S. getting hit by stronger, costlier, more varied and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on the planet, several experts said. Two oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, the Rocky Mountains, jutting peninsulas like Florida, clashing storm fronts and the jet stream combine to naturally brew the nastiest of weather.
That’s only part of it. Nature dealt the United States a bad hand, but people have made it much worse by what, where and how we build, several experts told The Associated Press.
Then add climate change, and “buckle up. More extreme events are expected,” said Rick Spinrad, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Tornadoes. Hurricanes. Flash floods. Droughts. Wildfires. Blizzards. Ice storms. Nor’easters. Lake-effect snow. Heat waves. Severe thunderstorms. Hail. Lightning. Atmospheric rivers. Derechos. Dust storms. Monsoons. Bomb cyclones. And the dreaded polar vortex.
It starts with “where we are on the globe,” North Carolina state climatologist Kathie Dello said. “It’s truly a little bit ... unlucky.”
China may have more people, and a large land area like the United States, but “they don't have the same kind of clash of air masses as much as you do in the U.S. that is producing a lot of the severe weather,” said Susan Cutter, director of the Hazards Vulnerability and Resilience Institute at the University of South Carolina.
The U.S. is by far the king of tornadoes and other severe storms.
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“It really starts with kind of two things. Number one is the Gulf of Mexico. And number two is elevated terrain to the west,” said Victor Gensini, a Northern Illinois University meteorology professor.
Look at Friday's deadly weather, and watch out for the next week to see it in action: Dry air from the West goes up over the Rockies and crashes into warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, and it’s all brought together along a stormy jet stream.
In the West, it's a drumbeat of atmospheric rivers. In the Atlantic, it's nor'easters in the winter, hurricanes in the summer and sometimes a weird combination of both, like Superstorm Sandy.
“It is a reality that regardless of where you are in the country, where you call home, you’ve likely experienced a high-impact weather event firsthand,” Spinrad said.
Killer tornadoes in December 2021 that struck Kentucky illustrated the uniqueness of the United States.
They hit areas with large immigrant populations. People who fled Central and South America, Bosnia and Africa were all victims. A huge problem was that tornadoes really didn't happen in those people's former homes, so they didn't know what to watch for or what to do, or even know they had to be concerned about tornadoes, said Joseph Trujillo Falcon, a NOAA social scientist who investigated the aftermath.
With colder air up in the Arctic and warmer air in the tropics, the area between them — the mid-latitudes, where the United States is — gets the most interesting weather because of how the air acts in clashing temperatures, and that north-south temperature gradient drives the jet stream, said Northern Illinois meteorology professor Walker Ashley.
Then add mountain ranges that go north-south, jutting into the winds flowing from west to east, and underneath it all the toasty Gulf of Mexico.
The Gulf injects hot, moist air underneath the often cooler, dry air lifted by the mountains, “and that doesn't happen really anywhere else in the world,” Gensini said.
If the United States as a whole has it bad, the South has it the worst, said University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd, a former president of the American Meteorological Society.
“We drew the short straw (in the South) that we literally can experience every single type of extreme weather event,” Shepherd said. “Including blizzards. Including wildfires, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes. Every single type. ... There's no other place in the United States that can say that.”
Florida, North Carolina and Louisiana also stick out in the water so are more prone to being hit by hurricanes, said Shepherd and Dello.
The South has more manufactured housing that is vulnerable to all sorts of weather hazards, and storms are more likely to happen there at night, Ashley said. Night storms are deadly because people can't see them and are less likely to take cover, and they miss warnings in their sleep.
The extreme weather triggered by America’s unique geography creates hazards. But it takes humans to turn those hazards into disasters, Ashley and Gensini said.
Just look where cities pop up in America and the rest of the world: near water that floods, except maybe Denver, said South Carolina's Cutter. More people are moving to areas, such as the South, where there are more hazards.
“One of the ways in which you can make your communities more resilient is to not develop them in the most hazard-prone way or in the most hazard-prone portion of the community,” Cutter said. “The insistence on building up barrier islands and development on barrier islands, particularly on the East Coast and the Gulf Coast, knowing that that sand is going to move and having hurricanes hit with some frequency ... seems like a colossal waste of money.”
Construction standards tend to be at the bare minimum and less likely to survive the storms, Ashley said.
“Our infrastructure is crumbling and nowhere near being climate-resilient at all,” Shepherd said.
Poverty makes it hard to prepare for and bounce back from disasters, especially in the South, Shepherd said. That vulnerability is an even bigger issue in other places in the world.
“Safety can be bought," Ashley said. “Those that are well-to-do and who have resources can buy safety and will be the most resilient when disaster strikes. ... Unfortunately that isn't all of us.”
“It’s sad that we have to live these crushing losses,” said Kim Cobb, a Brown University professor of environment and society. “We’re worsening our hand by not understanding the landscape of vulnerability given the geographic hand we’ve been dealt.”
Rains likely in parts of country in 24 hours
The weather department has predicted light to moderate rain or thunder showers in parts of the country in 24 hours, starting from 9 am today (March 22, 2023).
“Light to moderate rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at a few places over Chattogram, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places Rangpur, Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna and Barishal divisions with moderately heavy falls at places over the country,” said the Met office bulletin.
Also read: More rains likely to drench Bangladesh
Day temperature may rise slightly and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country, it said.
The lowest temperature in the country was recorded at 16.3 degrees Celsius in Tetulia of Panchagarh district while the highest temperature was recorded at 32.6 degrees Celsius in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar district.
The weather office recorded the highest 82 mm rainfall in Feni.
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More rain, thundershowers likely in parts of the country
As Dhaka got an early morning splash of rain today, which should help with the excessive dust, the Met Office predicted more rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind in different parts of the country today.
"Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind are likely to occur at one or two places over Mymensingh, Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions," said a bulletin of Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD).
Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy skies elsewhere over the country.
Day and night temperatures may fall slightly over the country.
Country’s lowest temperature was recorded at 16 degrees C in Tetulia of Panchagarh district, while the highest temperature was recorded at 35.3 degrees C in Rangamati district.
Also read: Khulna records 146 mm rainfall in 24 hrs, highest in 6 yrs
Meanwhile, trough of westerly low lies over India's West Bengal and adjoining areas. Seasonal low lies over the south Bay.
Dry weather likely in most parts of country
Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy skies over the country in 24 hours, starting from 9 am on Monday, said Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD).
According to the daily weather bulletin, “Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy skies over the country.”
Night and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country, it said.
Also Read: Dry weather likely in country over 24 hours
The lowest temperature in the country was recorded at 13.3 degrees Celsius in Tentulia upazila of Panchgarh district and the highest temperature was recorded at 34.5 degrees Celsius in Khepupara of Patuakhali district and Kumarkhali of Kushtia district.
Dry weather likely in country over 24 hours
Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy skies over the country in 24 hours, starting from 9 am today, said Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD).
According to the daily weather bulletin, “Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy skies over the country — with chances of rain or thunder showers at one or two places over Dhaka, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions.”
Light fog may occur at the river basins of the country from late night to morning.
Night temperature may fall slightly and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged, the weather bulletin said.
The lowest temperature in the country was recorded at 15.3 degrees Celsius in Rajathat upazila of Kurigram district and the highest temperature was recorded at 34.0 degrees Celsius in Rangamati district.
Also read: Dry weather likely in most parts of the country
A trough of westerly low lies over West Bengal and adjoining areas. Seasonal low lies over the south Bay.
Weather may remain dry across country: BMD
Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country, having chances of light rain/thunder showers at one or two places over Sylhet division, Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) said this (Monday) morning.
Light fog may occur at places over the river basins of the country during early morning, said the regular bulletin of BMD.
Night and day temperature may rise slightly over the country.
The lowest temperature in the country was recorded at 11.5 degrees Celsius in Srimangal in 24 hours till 6 am today. The highest temperature was recorded at 31.6 degrees Celsius in Sandwip and Cox’s Bazar.