The Met Office recorded 101 millimetres (mm) of rains during the 12 hours from 6:00am yesterday in the city, one of the highest amounts of rainfall measured in the city so far.

The Met Office said a "very heavy" rainfall is likely over Dhaka, Rajshahi and Khulna divisions in the next 48 hours beginning 12 noon yesterday due to the depression over the Bay of Bengal. The heavy shower may continue at a stretch for seven to eight hours in many places, especially in the capital and its surrounding places, it added.

Yesterday's downpour led to temporary inundation to many of the major roads in the commercial hub of the city, including Motijheel, Arambagh, Pirjongi Majar, Bangabandhu Avenue, Gulistan near Bangababhan, Bijoynagar, Kakrail and Topkhana Road.

Other low-lying areas of the city such as Asad Gate, Lalmatia, Farmgate, Tejkuni Para, Mirpur sections-1 and 10, Kazipara, Paikpara, Pirerbagh, Jatrabari, Sayedabad, Tikatuli, Hatkhola, parts of Banani, Gulshan, Dhanmondi and Uttara also went under water for a few hours.

Movement of mostly public buses and other modes of transport were severely interrupted especially in the morning as rainwater flushing out into the sewerage lines took hours to clear from the roads.

Meanwhile, yesterday's rain further worsened the condition inside the Dhaka-Narayanganj-Demra (DND) embankment as rainwater was trapped inside it flooding many walkways of Tengra, Boxnagar, Hajinagar, Konapara, Dellha, Dogair and Matuail areas.