Dense fog disrupts flights, water vessel movement
Thick fog blanketed most parts of the country disrupting normal life and delaying a number of flight schedules and halting water vessel services including Paturia-Daulatdia route since morning.
In Chittagong, flight operations at Shah Amanat International Airport have been disrupted for more than an hour due to poor visibility caused by dense fog, said Noor-E-Alam, the airport manager.
Two domestic flights of Novoair and US-Bangla airlines landed at the airport after a one-hour delay. The flight of US-Bangla touched the tarmac at 9:45am while Novoair flight at 9:50am.
Two international flights -- Biman Bangladesh Airlines 'BG 028' from Abudhabi and an Air Arabia flight from Sharjah, UAE -- were forced to land at Dhaka airport due to blurred visibility. The flights were scheduled to land at 8:20am and 9:00am.
Ferry services on the Daulatdia-Paturia route in the Padma River were suspended for nine hours till early today following the thick mist, UNB reports.
A light depression over the Bay has caused the cold wave sweeping all over the country intensified at the North Bengal including Pabna, Jessore and Kushtia, said Mohammad Shah Alam, director of Bangladesh Meteorological Department, told The Daily Star Online.
The lowest temperature is recorded in Ishwardi of Pabna at 7.2 degrees Celsius while the temperature of Dhaka is 12.6 this morning, the official said.
The cold wave with the dense fog disrupted the normal life in the urban and rural areas at different parts of the country. Farmers and day labourers are bearing the brunt of the ongoing cold spell. Many poor people are trying to combat this chilling cold with the heat from burning straw and old rubber tyres.
Met office forecast said that the cold wave will spread throughout the country from today. It also said there is a possibility of rainfall at the end of this month, and after that temperature of some regions may go down.
There will be another spell of cold wave on January 4 or 5 next year.
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