C T Online Desk: Sreemangal upazila of Moulvibazar recorded this season’s lowest temperature in Bangladesh at 5.6°C on Friday.
Anisur Rahman, chief of the local met office, confirmed the matter.
The lowest temperature in the upazila was 6.5°C on Thursday and 7.3°C the day before.
Moulvibazar Deputy Commissioner Mir Nahid said the government had so far allocated 35,280 blankets for the district and they had been distributed to daily wage earners and underprivileged people in seven upazilas.
According to a Bangladesh Meteorological Department bulletin, a mild to moderate cold wave is sweeping over Rangpur division and the districts of Faridpur, Madaripur, Gopalganj, Rajshahi, Pabna, Naogaon, Sirajganj, Rangamati, Comilla, Feni, Brahmanbaria, Jessore, Chuadanga, Kushtia, Barisal and Bhola, and it may continue.
Moderate to thick fog may occur over the river basins and light to moderate fog may occur elsewhere in the country from midnight till morning, the bulletin said.
The weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy skies across the country.
Night and day temperatures may remain nearly unchanged.
It may be noted that mercury dropped to 4°C in Sreemangal on January 11, 2013. One of the coldest areas in the country, the upazila had logged a temperature of 2.8°C in 1964.
Temperature between 8-10°C is considered a mild cold wave, 6-8°C a moderate cold wave and anything less than 6°C a severe cold wave.
