A farmer was killed in a landslide in Naikhanchhari upazila of Bandarban on Saturday afternoon amidst a wet spell setting in all over Bangladesh with forecasts of it bringing heavy to very heavy rain over the next three days.
The wet spell is triggered by an active monsoon and is also expected to be fed by a low pressure hovering over the north-west Bay of Bengal and its adjoining areas.
The Bangladesh Meteorological Department warned that landslides might occur in Chattogram, Rangamati, Khagrachhari, Cox鈥檚 Bazar and Bandarban areas during the wet spell.
The Met Office also issued signal number three for the maritime ports of Cox鈥檚 Bazar, Payra, Mongla and Chattogram, advising fishing boats and trawlers to stay close to the coast until further notice.
鈥楾he rainfall will keep increasing over the next two to three days,鈥� meteorologist Bazlur Rashid told 抖阴精品.
鈥楾his spell will bring heavy to very heavy rainfall,鈥� he said.
Naikhanchari police officer-in-charge Abdul Mannan confirmed that a landslide killed a 64-year-old farmer, Abu Bakkar Siqqiqui, around 12:00 noon when he was working in his crop field beside his home.
鈥業t has been raining on and off over the past several days,鈥� said Mannan.
This month saw extensive rainfall to occur in Sylhet, the highest in five decades with two waves of flash flood already marooning millions in Sylhet, Sunamganj, Habiganj and Moulvibazar districts.
Vast swathes of landscape in the division are still under water, many of them since June 14.
On Saturday, Dalia in Lalmonirhat saw its monthly rainfall for June cross all-time record with 1,004mm of rainfall recorded until 9:00am on Saturday.
The previous record of 982mm of rainfall at Dalia was recorded in 2022.
鈥楧alia just watched the wettest June in five decades,鈥� said Sarder Udoy Raihan, executive engineer, Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre.
The FFWC warned that the flood situation in the north-east might rapidly worsen over the next three days following heavy rainfall inside Bangladesh.
The water levels of Surma, Kushiyara, Old-Surma, and Sarigowain rivers in the north-eastern region might rise rapidly and create short-term flood situation on the low-lying areas of Sylhet and Sunamganj districts, in the next 48鈥�72 hours, said the FFWC in a bulletin issued on Saturday afternoon.
At 9:00am on Saturday, the FFWC said that the Kushiyara was flowing 17cm above its danger mark at Markuli in Habiganj.
The FFWC in a medium range flood forecast issued on Friday night said that the rivers in the Brahmaputra basin might also rapidly rise until the end of the first week of the next month.
The water levels in the Teesta, Dharla and Dudhkumar can particularly rapidly rise, the FFWC said.
The BMD said that the wet spell that had set over Bangladesh was likely to move gradually to upstream after July 3 continuing to cause heavy rainfall in the upstream across the border in India.
In the 24 hours until 8:30am, the India Meteorological Department reported up to 240mm of rainfall over vast swathes of Assam and Meghalaya, West Bengal, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.
The IMD predicted extremely heavy rainfall in Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh through today.
The IMD on Saturday afternoon also predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall across Bangladesh鈥檚 upstream in north-eastern India over the next five days.
In the 24 hours until 6:00pm, the BMD recorded the country鈥檚 highest rainfall of 113mm in Feni, followed by 99mm of rainfall recorded in Tentulia, 53mm in Dhaka.
The rainfall record of Bandarban was not available until 7:00pm.
Bangladesh鈥檚 highest temperature of 35c was recorded in Ishurdi on Saturday. Dhaka鈥檚 temperature dropped to 31.9C.
鈥楾he overall temperature might further drop today because of increased rainfall,鈥� said meteorologist AKM Nazmul Haque.
