The bone chilling cold wave, coupled with dense fog and mists over the northern districts, factually paralyzed the normal life of commoners for the last 24 hours.
According to sources, the severity of biting cold forced the commoners to stay indoors affecting normal activities as the sun hid behind dense fogs, mists and clouds amid windy weather almost throughout the day.
According to the Meteorological Office sources, the minimum temperatures marked both rise and fall while maximum temperatures registered little rise at most monitoring points in the districts.
The Met Office recorded the minimum temperature of 12.2 degrees Celsius at 6am and maximum of 18 degrees at 4 pm in Rangpur.
BSS reports-the minimum temperatures recorded were 10.8 degrees Celsius at Syedpur, 11.6 degrees in Bogra, 11 degrees in Dinajpur and the lowest temperature of 8.2 degrees Celsius in the country was recorded at Iswardi.
Due to the prevailing minimum gap between the maximum and minimum temperatures during the past couple of days, intensity of biting cold continues causing untold miseries to the common people almost everywhere.
“We have further intensified distribution of warm clothes among the cold-hit people to mitigate their sufferings in Rangpur like in the other northern districts,” District Relief and Rehabilitation Officer of Rangpur Abdus Salam said.
The district and upazila administrations, NGOs, voluntary, socio- cultural, charitable and professional organisations have also been distributing warm clothes among the cold- hit people to mitigate their sufferings.
Reports reaching from the remote and sandy char areas of Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha, Rangpur, Nilphamari, Bogra and Sirajganj districts on the Brahmaputra basin said sufferings of thousands of people living there remained unchanged.
The number of cold- related patients has increased in the northern districts making the elderly people, children and babies as the worst sufferers, doctors in the hospitals and health complexes said.
Civil Surgeon of Rangpur Dr Reajul Islam said steps had been taken in the hospitals and health complexes to provide proper treatment to the cold- related patients and no incident of cold- related death was reported so far.
Horticulture Socialist of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) Khandker Md Mesbahul Islam said the situation had deteriorated during the past two days due to climate change impacts causing sufferings to the people.
