City Desk :
The met office on Thursday predicted rain or thundershowers with intense lightning flashes accompanied by temporary gusty wind at a few places across the country in the next 24 hours as of 9am today.
However, the day and night temperature may rise slightly over the country.
“Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at a few places over Sylhet and Chattogram divisions and at one or two places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh, Dhaka, Khulna and Barishal divisions with hails at isolated places,” said a met office press release on Thursday, reports BSS.
Country’s maximum temperature on Wednesday was recorded 34.6 degree Celsius at Mongla and Thursday’s minimum temperature 18.0 degree Celsius was recorded at Badalgachhi.
The highest rainfall in the last 24 hours as of 6 am yesterday was recorded 72 millimetres (mm) at Sitakunda.