Weather deteriorates in N-region as temperature falls
Saturday, 2 January 2010
RANGPUR, Jan 1 (BSS): Normal life remained seriously affected as mercury dipped again and dense fogs and cooler winds added sufferings to the common people in the northern region after a comparatively good day Thursday.
The minimum temperatures dipped by one to three degrees Celsius during the period and ranged between 10 and 11.7 degrees Friday causing shivering cold and forcing hundreds of people to stay indoors till the noon.
The vehicular traffic on roads and highways, plying of trains and water vessels seriously affected till Friday noon when the vehicles plied slowly with their headlights on to avert accidents.
The district and upazila administrations, NGOs, voluntary, socio-cultural and charitable organisations and affluent people have been continuing distribution of warm clothes among the poor, and the district administrations asked for more warm clothes.
The allocated blankets so far by the government had already been distributed by the administrations in the region to mitigate sufferings of the cold-hit distressed people and allocation of more warm clothes by the government was awaited, officials said.
Met Office sources said, both the minimum and maximum temperatures marked falls at all six monitoring points in the region during the last 24 hours reducing the gap between them further that caused biting cold deteriorating the situation.
The minimum temperatures dipped by one to three degrees Celsius during the period and ranged between 10 and 11.7 degrees Friday causing shivering cold and forcing hundreds of people to stay indoors till the noon.
The vehicular traffic on roads and highways, plying of trains and water vessels seriously affected till Friday noon when the vehicles plied slowly with their headlights on to avert accidents.
The district and upazila administrations, NGOs, voluntary, socio-cultural and charitable organisations and affluent people have been continuing distribution of warm clothes among the poor, and the district administrations asked for more warm clothes.
The allocated blankets so far by the government had already been distributed by the administrations in the region to mitigate sufferings of the cold-hit distressed people and allocation of more warm clothes by the government was awaited, officials said.
Met Office sources said, both the minimum and maximum temperatures marked falls at all six monitoring points in the region during the last 24 hours reducing the gap between them further that caused biting cold deteriorating the situation.