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  • DHAKA, March 5 (AFP)- (AFP) Mar 05, 2005
    Bangladesh has experienced its shortest winter in a decade, meteorologists said Saturday, adding the unusually short season may be due to global warning.

    Winter in tropical Bangladesh normally starts on December 1 and lasts until February 28.

    But "the winter was over by fifth of February," Taslima Imam, a meteorologist at the country's Meteorological Department, told AFP Saturday.

    "We're baffled that this winter was the shortest the country experienced during the last one decade," she said

    The meteorologists are analysing the weather data to determine whether the short season was caused by global warming, she said.

    Winter temperatures were also warmer than usual.

    "Usually in winter, we have around eight-to-nine severe to mild cold waves. This winter there were only two moderate cold waves lasting only three days," Imam said.

    "It may be due to the impact of global warming as the World Meteorological Organisation forecast in a report that in 2005 the world will experience a very warm year," Imam said.

    The unusually short winter followed the heaviest rainfall in 50 years last September and a flood that inundated around 38 per cent of the low-lying South Asian nation, killing some 500 people.

    "Even the (winter) rainfall was over 60 percent less than the average," she said.




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