The ongoing flood situation in the country’s northern and north-eastern parts deteriorated as the country’s neighbouring Indian state Assam and Meghalaya had experienced heavy rainfall until yesterday.
Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre said water of Brahmaputra and Jamuna rivers is still showing the rising trend which is likely to continue for the next 72 hours.
“Despite less rainfall in the northern Bangladesh over the last two days the region’s major river system – Brahmaputra-Jamuna – has swelled with the water still rolling down from upstream Assam,” said Ripon Karmaker, the duty officer of Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre yesterday.
He also said the flood situation in this particular part is now depending on the current rainfall pattern in the upstream.
The country’s north-eastern part including Sylhet and Sunamganj has seen the same pattern of rainfall along with neighbouring state of India’s Meghalaya for the last few days.
The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre in its flood bulletin yesterday said the rivers in north-eastern part were on the rise but the trend is likely to reverse in the next 48 hours.
The Bangladesh Meteorological Department yesterday recorded 115mm rainfall in Sylhet while it recorded 95mm rainfall in Jamalpur and 49mm in Kaunia of Rangpur.
The bulletin also said the overall flood situation in the places of the districts of the north and central part of the country may deteriorate in the next 48 hours while it is likely to improve in the north-eastern part of the country.
Meanwhile, Indian Meteorological Department yesterday projected a heavy rainfall in some places of Assam and Meghalaya till today.
However, on Monday it said the rainfall would continue till yesterday.
The Met office yesterday said Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar and Teknaf regions have registered heavy rainfall over the last two days.
It recorded 137mm rainfall in Cox’s Bazar, 81mm in Chittagong and 70mm in Teknaf yesterday.
Meanwhile, the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre said out of 85 river stations 23 were flowing above danger level yesterday but it was below the level of the previous day. The Met office yesterday in a special weather bulletin stated that heavy rainfall is likely to occur at places over Rangpur, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions during the next 24 hours.
In the meantime, a vast areas of northern and north-eastern parts of Bangladesh adjacent to the major river systems have been flooded and huge stretches of agricultural land have gone under water causing damage to the country’s major cereal crop Aman fields.