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temperatures yesterday. When the gap between the temperatures remains below 10 degrees Celsius, the feelings of cold increase,” he said.

Mallik said if the gap reduces further, people will feel cold more in Dhaka though Dhaka will not experience any cold wave during this time, he said.

Yesterday’s lowest temperature was recorded at 11.4 degrees Celsius at Badalgachi in Naogaon.

Daily activities of people in some upazilas of Kurigram and Lalmonirhat have been severely affected by the cold weather and dense fog.

The sun has not been seen in those areas since Sunday, said locals.

Poor people in char areas of the Brahmaputra, Dudhkumar, Gangadhar, Teesta, and Dharla rivers have been worst hit by cold weather.

“Although we are putting on a brave face and have started working on crop fields, we could not work for long because of the cold,” said Nabir Hossain, 65, a farmer of Char Sonaikazi area of the Dharla river basin in Kurigram’s Phulbari.

Abdul Hai Sarkar, Kurigram district relief and rehabilitation officer, said blankets would be distributed through upazila administrations and union parishads.