{"id":2586,"date":"2026-09-17T10:15:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:15:38","slug":"mild-heatwave-sweeps-many-parts-of-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/?p=2586","title":{"rendered":"Mild heatwave sweeps many parts of country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty winds are likely at many places over the country, with a low-pressure area likely to form over Bay of Bengal by September 19, according to the latest weather bulletin issued by the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD).<\/p>\n<p>The BMD said light to moderate rain or thundershowers with temporary gusty winds are likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Dhaka, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Rajshahi, Khulna, Barishal and Chattogram divisions during the 24 hours beginning at 9:00 am today.<\/p>\n<p>It added that day and night temperatures may fall slightly.<\/p>\n<p>The BMD said a mild heat wave is currently sweeping over Dhaka, Faridpur, Rangpur, Jashore and Khulna districts, but it is expected to abate shortly.<\/p>\n<p>During the last 24 hours until 6:00 am today, the highest rainfall of 65 millimetres was recorded at Rangamati.<\/p>\n<p>Jashore recorded the highest maximum temperature of 36.4 degrees Celsius, while the lowest minimum temperature was 22.5 degrees Celsius at Srimangal.<\/p>\n<p>The sun will set in the capital at 6:00 pm today and rise at 5:46 am tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-BSS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty winds are likely at many&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[174,54],"tags":[367,327],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-environment","tag-bmd-forecast","tag-weather-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","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=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}