Yet another heatwave began on Monday, just six days after the longest-ever 37-day heatwave in the country鈥檚 history ended causing 15 deaths from heat strokes.
On Monday, Bangladesh鈥檚 highest day temperature of 37C was recorded in Ishwardi with a mild heatwave also sweeping over the districts of Tangail, Rajshahi,聽 Pabna and Rangamati.
A mild heatwave is when day temperature over a certain area ranges from 36C to 38C.
鈥楧ay temperatures are likely to increase over the next two days,鈥� meteorologist Bazlur Rashid told 抖阴精品.
The maximum day temperature in the capital dropped a little to 34C from 34.2C recorded the day before.
Bangladesh Meteorological Department said that thundershower might occur at one or two places Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka, Mymensingh and Sylhet division today.
The day temperature is likely to increase by up to 2C.
During the last heatwave, the country鈥檚 highest day temperature of 43.8C was recorded in Jashore on April 30, the hottest day in over three decades.
Districts such as Chuadanga and Jashore saw day temperatures stay at 40C or above for almost three weeks between mid-April and early May.
Day temperatures frequently exceeded 40C in Dhaka, which saw its peak at 40.5C on April 30, the second hottest day in the capital in the past 64 years.
The start of a fresh heatwave indicates a rapid decline in nor鈥檞ester in the coming days. Nor鈥檞esters killed at least two dozen people between May 2 and 4 with lightning, hailstorm and stormy wind.
The BMD revealed in its latest report titled 鈥楥hanging Climate of Bangladesh鈥� that the maximum temperature in the pre-monsoon months rose between 1980 and 2020.
The report showed that parts of the northern, south-western, and south-eastern regions are especially prone to warmer days in the pre-monsoon season.
May is the last month of the pre-monsoon season.
The report showed that the pre-monsoon season grew rather drier with less rain between 1980 and 2020, with a decrease of 2.7 days in the number of rainy days every decade.
With hot days returning, load shedding returned in some hours of the day though the power demand remained nearly 13,000MW, less than half of the country鈥檚 installed power generation capacity of more than 27,000MW.
Until 3:00pm on Monday, the PGCB data showed, load shedding peaked at 153MW in the hour after the production of 13,470MW.
