Weather marked slight improvement following rise in temperatures as the sun appeared in the northern districts since Wednesday morning bringing easiness to the common people.
Local residents said vehicular movements on roads and highways and activities in business centers, markets, bus stands, terminals and railway stations gained momentum since Wednesday morning.
The Met Office recorded the country’s minimum temperature of 9.3 degrees Celsius around 6am on Wednesday at Dinajpur.
Besides, the minimum temperature of 11.5 degrees Celsius was recorded at Rangpur on Wednesday while 9.8 degrees Celsius at Saidpur, 9.5 degrees Celsius at Tetulia, 11 degrees Celsius at Dimla and 9.9 degrees Celsius at Rajarhat monitoring points.
Following little improvement of the situation, common people and day-laborers started normal activities on Wednesday.
District administrations, NGOs, voluntary, sociocultural and political organizations, trade bodies, different banks and affluent people are continuing distribution of warm clothes among the cold-hit people.
Additional Director of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) for Rangpur region Agriculturist Md. Mahbubur Rahman said growing winter crops and Boro seedlings would not be affected if the weather continues improving onwards.
Senior Coordinator (Agriculture and Environment) of RDRS Bangladesh Agriculturalist Mamunur Rashid said the trend of climatic nature has become almost erratic as a result of the adverse impacts of climate change.
“Due to the behavioral change in the weather pattern, temperatures are marking falls in the morning and rise again in the afternoon almost daily. And so why is the growth of crop plants not being affected,” Rashid added. ♦
