A young man named Miraj (27) died of heat stroke in Bhola’s char fashion. He died on Wednesday (April 24) afternoon in Ward No. 1 of Abubakkarpur Union of Dularhat Police Station. The dead youth Miraj is the son of Nurul Islam of that village.
Neighbor Arif said that young Miraj was working at his house in the hot sun at noon. After being in the hot sun for about two hours, he suddenly felt pain in his chest. In the afternoon, when the pain became more intense, the family members rescued him and took him to Charfashion Hospital, where the doctor on duty declared him dead.
Sub Assistant Community Medical Officer working at Charfashan Hospital. Zahid Hasan said that the young man died before being brought to the hospital. It is initially believed that young Mirage died of heatstroke.
In the current pre-monsoon season, the highest temperature recorded in the country so far is 42.6 degrees Celsius. At the same time, due to more humidity in the air, the temperature is felt to be four to five degrees higher.
AKM Nazmul Haque, Meteorologist of the Department of Meteorology said, “Because of the high humidity, the temperature is felt four to five degrees higher than the actual temperature.”
Experts say that the average temperature of a place on a particular date is calculated by averaging the temperature over 30 years.
The average temperature of Dhaka city on April 22 was 33.7 degrees Celsius. But on April 22 this year, the temperature reached 37.8 degrees Celsius, more than four degrees Celsius above the average.
On the same day, the highest temperature in the country was recorded at 40.6 degrees Celsius in Jessore, Khulna and Chuadanga. The average temperature of the districts is 35.7, 34.7 and 36 degrees Celsius. That is, yesterday the temperature in Khulna was 5.9 degrees Celsius higher than the average, Jessore 4.9 degrees Celsius and Chuadanga 4.6 degrees Celsius.
Last April 21, Chuadanga recorded the highest temperature of this year at 42.6 degrees Celsius. However, the average temperature of this day in the district is 37.5 degrees Celsius.
The 72-hour ‘heat alert’ issued by the Meteorological Department due to heat wave ends tomorrow morning. Meteorologists say the heat wave may continue till the end of this month.
Experts say the heatwave is due to the effects of El Nino, which is currently affecting the south and southeast and will continue till the end of this month.
Senior Global Futures Scientist Professor Rashed Chowdhury of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University in the United States said that as El Nino turns to La Nina, temperatures are increasing and this year may be the warmest on record.
