Light rain with gusty wind likely

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BSS, Dhaka :
Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on Friday predicted light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind across the country.
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Mymensingh, Rangpur and Rajshahi divisions with moderately heavy to heavy falls at isolated places over the country, a met office press release said. Day and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country. A low pressure area has formed over Northwest Bay and adjoining west central Bay of Bengal off north Andhra Pradesh and South Odisha Coast. The axis of monsoon trough runs through Uttar Pradesh, East Madhya Pradesh, centre of the low and thence north-eastwards to Assam across central part of Bangladesh.
Monsoon is fairly active over Bangladesh and moderate to strong elsewhere over North Bay.
Country’s maximum temperature on Thursday was recorded 34.8 degrees Celsius at Sayedpur and minimum temperature on Friday 23.4 degrees Celsius at Tangail.
Maximum rainfall for the last 24 hours till 6am on Friday was recorded 49 millimeters (mm) at Tangail.
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