The flood situation in the north-east is set to worsen over the weekend with the ongoing wet spell picking up with heavy to very heavy rainfall continuing inside the country and increasing in its upstream in parts of north-eastern India.
After the early hours of Wednesday, however, the Sylhet district saw a pause in rainfall when the floodwater receded from parts of the city, but the district鈥檚 rural parts saw flooding spread to new areas.
The flashflood in Sylhet, which already hit 10 upazilas out of total 13 affecting over a million people, continued for a week on Wednesday though such floods caused by heavy rains do not usually stay more than a day, reported 抖阴精品 correspondent in Sylhet.
Over 800 villages are currently inundated in the district with fresh areas in Jakiganj, Beanibazar, Golapganj, Fenchuganj and Dakkhin Surma going under water following torrential rainfall between Tuesday and early hours of Wednesday.
The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre said that in the 24 hours until 9:00am on Wednesday Bangladesh鈥檚 highest maximum rainfall of 206mm was recorded in Kamalganj of Moulvibazar district. Sreemangal recorded 138mm of rainfall over the same time, followed by Sylhet recording 110mm of rainfall and over 50mm of rainfall in many places in Sunamganj and Moulvibazar.
Rivers overflowing their banks, on the other hand, dropped slightly.
The Surma River flowed 56cm above its danger mark after falling 4cm over the 24-hour reporting period, the FFWC said, adding that the Kushiyara fell 6cm over the same day, flowing 21cm above the danger mark.
The Bangladesh Meteorological Department in its weather bulletin issued at 6:00pm on Wednesday said that the northern region inside the country might keep receiving heavy to very heavy rainfall over the next five days.
The India Meteorological Department expected heavy rainfall in the north-east due to a cyclonic circulation over Nagaland and strong southerly winds from the Bay of Bengal.
The IMD expected very heavy rainfall over Assam and Meghalaya on Friday and Saturday.
Major rivers in northern region also swelled significantly following heavy rainfall in its upstream.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Lalmonirhat reported that strong currents in the Teesta washed away 17 houses over the last three days in Aditmari, Patgram and Lalmonirhat sadar upazilas.
Local people organised a human chain demanding embankments to protect them against flood.
Vast swathes of cropfields with sweet pumpkin, maize and vegetable crops were inundated in the flood.
Water Development Board executive engineer in Dalia Asfauddulla said that the Teesta River was flowing 115cm below the danger level on Tuesday afternoon. The river could overflow its bank in a matter of hours.
On Thursday light to moderate rain accompanied by a temporary gusty wind was likely to occur at many places over Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions, at a few places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Dhaka and Chattogram divisions and at one or two places over Khulna and Barishal divisions with moderately heavy to heavy falls at places over Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions, said the BMD.
A mild heatwave kept sweeping the entire division of Khulna and the districts of Faridpur, Gopalganj, Pabna, Rajshahi, Sirajganj, Rangamati, Barishal and Patuakhali and it might continue.
Bangladesh鈥檚 highest maximum day air temperature of 37.6C on Wednesday was recorded in Jashore.
Dhaka鈥檚 highest maximum day air temperature was recorded to be 35.4C.
