Over 17,000 people remained in flood shelters, with hundreds of thousands stranded in villages in the north and north-eastern districts on Tuesday, despite subsiding floods.
At 9:00am on the day, the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre reported that four rivers鈥擩amuna, Someswari, Kushiara, and Meghna鈥攆lowed above their danger marks at Jamalpur, Netrakona, Sunamganj, and Munshiganj, respectively.
The Jamuna flowed 47 cm above the danger mark at Jagannathganj in Jamalpur in the morning.
The rivers subsided amidst heavy to very heavy rainfall in the northeast region and its adjacent upstream areas across the border in India.
The flood forecasting centre reported that Bangladesh鈥檚 highest maximum rainfall of 134mm was recorded in Dakkhinbag of Moulvibazar in its reporting cycle ending Tuesday morning.
The India Meteorological Department reported up to 130mm of rainfall in Assam and Meghalaya in the 24 hours until 8:30am on Tuesday.
The daily situation report by the disaster and relief ministry revealed that 17,197 people were sheltered in flood shelters in the affected districts. Over 8,500 people were in flood shelters in Sylhet district.
A total of 994 villages remained flooded in Sylhet, with 15,845 families stranded in Moulvibazar. In Sirajganj, more livestock animals were in flood shelters than humans.
The heatwave that started in Rangpur and Sylhet divisions on Monday completely retreated on Tuesday following rain in the areas, with Bangladesh鈥檚 highest maximum day air temperature of 35.2掳C recorded in Sylhet. In Dhaka, the day temperature slightly dropped to 34掳C.
Despite the temperature drop, load shedding increased on Tuesday compared to the day before.
At 1:00am, the highest load shedding of 1,061MW was recorded, according to the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh. The power demand at the hour was 15,300MW, while Bangladesh鈥檚 current installed power generation capacity is 27,515MW.