The Meteorological Department has forecast severe cold in some parts of the country towards the end of winter. Tentulia in Panchagarh recorded the lowest temperature of 14.2 degree Celsius on Tuesday. Meteorologist Shahnaz Sultana said the sky in the last half of the Bengali month of Magh, which is the last month of winter, is […]
Dense fog left two boats carrying passengers stranded in the middle of the Padma river, forcing the authorities to suspend services on the Daulatdia-Paturia route. Mohammad Khalid Nawaz, a deputy general manager of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority, said they suspended the services at around 9.30 pm on Saturday due to zero visibility.
However, Umar Farooq, a construction worker, was an exception as he wore a thin T-shirt and lungi while working at a construction site in Mohammadpur. “When I work, my body gets hot and I don’t feel cold at all. When I stop working, I feel cold,” he said. Mohsin, a rickshaw puller, wore a long-sleeved […]
Meteorologist Abdur Rahman said that the cold weather will continue throughout the month. When the temperature drops below 6 degree Celsius over a vast area, it is considered as a severe cold wave. If the temperature of the region remains between 6-8 degrees Celsius, a moderate cold wave forms, while the temperature hovering between 8-10 […]
The IMD has also predicted cold wave conditions in some areas of the north-west states of Punjab, Haryana and Delhi during the next two days. Cold wave is declared in the plains of India when the minimum temperature drops to 4 °C or 4.5 °C below normal to 10 °C or below.
The winter is approaching and it is foggy morning these days. Dense fog in the morning is causing poor visibility. Often the fog is so dense that things at a short distance become invisible causing troubles to vehicular movement in many places. Specially the ferries could not continue their normal operations at many places. Often […]
A dense fog covered much of the country for the last 2 days leading to major traffic disruptions in air and water ways, although temperature rose a bit after three freezing days. Two international flights were cancelled and most of the flights were delayed in both landing and departure due to a very poor visibility, […]