BSS – The northern town of Tentulia recorded the
country’s lowest temperature today at 9.4 degree Celsius as a mild cold wave
continued there, although weather conditions in other parts of the northern
region improved significantly.
Met Office sources said minimum temperature mostly remained unchanged while
maximum temperature marked rises during the last 24 hours till this afternoon
bringing huge relief to common people in most areas across the region.
Today’s minimum temperature was recorded at 12.5 degree Celsius in Rangpur,
12 degree Celsius in Dinajpur, 11.8 degree Celsius in Saidpur, 12 degree
Celsius at Dimla in Nilphamari and 13 degree Celsius at Rajarhat in Kurigram
district monitoring points in the region.
The maximum temperature ranged between 24 degree Celsius and 26.6 degree
Celsius on Friday with a little rise at places today in the northern region.
Like yesterday, the weather marked a significant improvement as the sun
appeared in a clear sky free from fog and clouds in the region from this
morning bringing huge relief to the common people for the second consecutive
day.
Earlier on Tuesday and Wednesday last, the severity of the cold forced
thousands to stay indoors affecting normal activities as the sun remained
covered by fog and clouds all the day amid blowing cooler winds.
Normal activities resumed in crop fields and farmlands and vehicular movement
on the roads and highways became usual in the region except at places in the
sub-Himalayan Panchagarh district where a mild cold wave still continues.
Physicians and officials at hospitals, upazila health complexes and community
clinics said the number of patients with cough, fever, asthma and other cold-
related diseases were still rushing today like in the previous few days.
There are adequate stocks of medicines in the district, upazila and union
level government-run health service facilities and special steps have been
taken to treat cold-related patients, including babies and children there.
The district administrations, voluntary, sociocultural and charitable
organisations, trade bodies and NGOs have further intensified distribution of
warm clothes among cold-hit people to mitigate their sufferings.
Rangpur District Relief and Rehabilitation Officer (DRRO) Md Motahar Hossain
said distribution of 30,000 pieces of blankets allocated so far by the
government and locally purchased are being distributed to cold-stricken
people of the district.
Kurigram DRRO Md Abdul Hye Sarker said the district administration continues
distribution of 32,000 pieces of blankets allocated so far by the government
and purchased locally among the cold-affected people.
Additional Director of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) for
Rangpur region Agriculturist Md Obaidur Rahman Mondal told BSS that
agriculture officers are assisting farmers in nursing their growing winter
crop plants and Boro rice seedlings properly to save those from cold
injuries.
He also suggested farmers irrigate Boro rice seedbeds at nights and discharge
water in the mornings and keep seedbeds under cover of polythene sheets to
save seedlings from cold injuries if the situation deteriorates again in the
future.
