The flood situation in the Sylhet division has broken all previous records in Bangladesh, including the disastrous flood of 1998.
Experts say that the situation has occurred due to the extremely heavy rainfall in India's Meghalaya-Cherrapunji, which has surpassed all records of the past.
According to reports from European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast, rainfall in Meghalaya totaled 2500mm, which is the highest in the past 100 years
Friday’s weather bulletin of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said that heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to occur in Rangpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh, Dhaka, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet regions in the next 72 hours.
Md Arifuzzaman Bhuyan, executive engineer of Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) said the flood situation in Sylhet is unlikely to improve in the next three days.
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“Flood depends on rainfall of upstream nations such as India. According to our reports, heavy rainfall in Meghalaya and Assam has caused the flood in the Sylhet region. Forecasts show this rainfall would continue for the next three days.” he added.
He added that the northern regions of the country are also at risk of flood, as water levels of Teesta River have started to rise alarmingly.
The northern and northeastern regions are in extreme danger of facing flash floods as the Dudhkumar, Dharla, Brahmaputra, and Jamuna rivers of the Brahmaputra basin and Surma, Kushiyara, Sarigowain, Old Surma, Jadukata, Someshwari, Bhogai rivers of Meghna basin will continue to keep swelling due to very heavy rainfall.
