The northernmost sub-Himalayan town of Tentulia in Panchagarh district today recorded the season’s lowest temperature of 4.9 degrees Celsius causing untold sufferings to the common people.
The mercury levels marked little ups and downs during the past 24 hours ending at 6:00pm today (Wednesday) again forcing the people to remain indoors due to bone-chilling cold exposing the poor, elder citizens and minor children to intense miseries, reports BSS.
Dense layers of fogs amid blowing cooler winds from the north and northwestern directions caused bone-chilling cold exposing the poor, elder citizens and minor children to intense miseries and forcing the people to remain indoors till 9:00am today.
Officials at Rangpur Met Office said the country’s lowest temperature of 4.9 degrees Celsius was recorded today at Tentulia monitoring point in Panchagarh district at 6:00am.
The situation remained mostly unchanged in Rangpur city where the minimum temperature of 10 degrees against yesterday’s 9.5 degrees Celsius.
Besides, the minimum temperatures recorded today were 7.5 degrees Celsius at Dinajpur, 8.2 degrees at Syedpur, 8 degrees at Dimla and 8.6 degrees Celsius at Rajarhat point in Kurigram.
Local residents said the number of patients with cough, fever, asthma and other cold and climate change related diseases continued increasing today like during the past five days in the region.
Director of Rangpur Medical College Hospital Dr Ajay Kumar Roy said physicians are providing necessary heath services to the increasing number of cold-related patents in the hospital like other health service facilities.
