{"id":2497,"date":"2026-09-16T09:57:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T09:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:57:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T09:57:52","slug":"mild-heatwave-sweeping-over-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/?p=2497","title":{"rendered":"Mild heatwave sweeping over country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--nextpage-->&#8220;A mild heatwave is sweeping over Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions and the districts of Dhaka, Tangail, Manikgonj, Kishoregonj, Rajshahi, Sirajgonj, Rangpur, Nilphamari, Chandpur, Feni, Jashore, Chuadanga, Kushtia, Satkhira, Khulna, Barishal &amp; Patuakhali and it may abate from some places,&#8221; said a Met office bulletin issued this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) forecast rain in different parts of the country over the next 24 hours, starting at 9 am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Light to moderate rain\/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh, Chattogram &amp; Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Dhaka, Khulna &amp; Barishal divisions,&#8221; the bulletin said.<\/p>\n<p>It also said moderately heavy falls may occur at places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Day and night temperatures may fall slightly over the country.<\/p>\n<p>The highest temperature on Tuesday was 37.5 degrees Celsius in Feni, while today&#8217;s minimum temperature is 24 degrees Celsius in Bandarban.<\/p>\n<p>In the last 24 hours (till 06 am today), the highest rainfall of 42 millimetres occurred in Bandarban.<\/p>\n<p>The sun sets at 6:01 pm today and rises at 5:45 am tomorrow in Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p>-BSS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A mild heatwave is sweeping over Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions and the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[174,54],"tags":[630,858,859],"class_list":["post-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-environment","tag-bmd","tag-heat-wave","tag-weather-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}