The second spell of heatwave this month lasted three days as it ended on Tuesday with intermittent thunderstorms sweeping over parts of Bangladesh bringing rain, heavy wind and hailstorm.
The country鈥檚 highest maximum day temperature of 35.8C on Tuesday was recorded in Feni. Thunderstorms lashed Kishoreganj, Netrakona, and Sylhet in the afternoon.
鈥楾he temperature is likely to be on the falling trend over the next few days,鈥� said meteorologist Muhammad Abul Kalam Mallik in Dhaka.
Parts of the Dhaka city are likely to witness thunderstorm today, he said.
The forecast of the wet spell persisting until April 21 brings relief implying that the hottest month of year might give a respite to people from very high temperature this year.
Last year, April witnessed consecutive days with day temperatures exceeding 40C, over vast swathes of land. April in fact witnessed such a massive hot spell that it was counted as one of last year鈥檚 extreme disasters in an international report.
The absence of rain gave way to a prolonged dry spell around this time last year, causing immense sufferings to farmers, who needed to dig artificial ponds for irrigation.
At 5:00pm on Tuesday, the power demand stood at 13,946MW, after dropping from 14,333MW an hour before.
Both units of the Adani power plant in India came back to operation by Tuesday with 1,078MW supplied to Bangladesh at 5:00pm. Still, 120MW of load shedding was recorded at the time.
