Northern rivers likely to swell
Staff Reporter :
Major rivers of the country’s northern region are likely to rise rapidly in the next 48 hours as meteorological agencies forecasted heavy rainfalls in the upstream.
According to Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC), there is a chance of heavy rainfall in the northern and adjoining upstream parts of Bangladesh in next 48 hours.
As a result, river waters in these regions of the country like Teesta, Dharla, Dudkumar, Upper Karatoa, Upper Atrai, Kulikh, Tangon and Punarbhaba may rise rapidly in the next 48 hours.
Mehadi Hasan, Assistant Engineer of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) and also in-charge FFWC, said, the Brahmaputra, Jamuna and the Ganges-Padma Rivers are in a falling trend which may continue in the next 24-48 hours.
On the other hand, except the Surma, all the major rivers in the North-Eastern region of the country are in a falling trend too which may continue in the next 48 hours, he added.
According to India Meteorology Department (IMD), there are chances of light to moderate widespread extremely heavy rainfall activity very likely over the Sub-Himalayan region during next 5 days.
“Isolated extremely heavy rainfall activity very likely over West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Himachal and Arunachal Pradesh, which will continue till August 26,” the IMD bulletin said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Meteorology Department (BMD) on Tuesday forecasted that light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at most places over some divisions; at many places over southern regions and at a few places over northern region.
“Light to moderate rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at most places over Rangpur, Mymensingh, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions; at many places over Dhaka, Khulna and Barishal divisions and at a few places over Rajshahi division with moderately heavy to very heavy falls at places over the country”, said a met office forecast for the next 24 hours.
Country’s maximum rainfall for the last twenty-four hours till 6am today was recorded by 162 millimeters (mm) at Sylhet.
The axis of monsoon trough runs through Rajsthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal to Assam across northern part of Bangladesh. One of its associated troughs extends up to Northwest Bay.
Monsoon is fairly active over Bangladesh and moderate over North Bay.
