Overnight rain ahead of the winter due to a low pressure system in the sea has left Dhaka residents in the lurch on Monday.
Commuters and officegoers faced a shortage of public transportation.
Deep depression ‘Jawad’, which turned into a well-marked low on Monday, has been dumping heavy rain across the country since Sunday.
More rains expected to occur at places over Khulna, Barisal, Dhaka and Chittagong divisions during the next 24 hours, say the Met Office.
According to its bulletin issued on Monday morning, moderately heavy to heavy rainfall, measuring from 22-43 mm to 44-88mm, are likely to occur during the 24-hour period.
The depression over northwest Bay and adjoining west-central Bay weakened into a well-marked low moving northeastward over adjoining West Bengal-Bangladesh coast at 9 am on Monday.
It will weaken into a low by the evening moving further in a north-northeasterly direction, the bulletin added.
Under the influence of the well-marked low, steep pressure gradient persists over north Bay.
All the maritime ports of the country have been advised to keep hoisting local cautionary signal number three.
