After weeks of sizzling heat and humidity, much-awaited monsoon rain brought relief to the people in the capital.
The capital on Wednesday witnessed moderate showers from 11:00am which continued to drench the city for several hours.
Met office recorded 12 mm of rainfall in the capital from 12:00 noon.
Some office goers suffered while going to their working places in the morning.
Apart from the capital, several districts including the coastal ones witnessed rain.
In Chattogram, the Met office recorded 56 mm of rainfall on Wednesday.
Some low-lying areas including Boddarhat and Agrabad went under knee-deep water due to rains. Many were seen wading through water on roads.
Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) predicted light to moderate showers across the country commencing 8:00am on Wednesday.
“Light rain or thunder-showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely at many places over the Rangpur, Mymensingh, Dhaka, Barishal, Chattogram, and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over the Rajshahi and the Khulna divisions with moderately heavy to heavy falls at places over the country,” the BMD said in its bulletin on Wednesday.
Besides, a mild heat wave is sweeping over the districts of Rajshahi, Pabna, Rangpur, Dinajpur, and Nilphamari and it may abate from some places, according to the weather forecast.
Meanwhile, another spell of the flood may hit the low-lying areas of the northern districts in the last week of July.
However, the flood situation may worsen in the first week of August, according to Bangladesh Weather Observatory Team (BWOT), an independent weather research group.
