The Meteorology Department says the deep depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal was located to 190 km southeast of Trincomalee at around 11:30 p.m. of November 26, 2024.<\/p>\n
It is likely to move north-northwestwards closer to the east coast of Sri Lanka and intensify further into a cyclonic storm today (November 27).<\/p>\n
Under influence of the system cloudy skies will prevailed over most parts of the island, very heavy showers and strong gusty winds can be expected in Northern, North-central, Eastern, North-western and Central provinces, it added.<\/p>\n
Showers or thundershowers will occur at times in Northern, North-central, Central, western and North-western provinces and in Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Kegalle districts. Very heavy showers above 150 mm are likely at some places.<\/p>\n
Showers will occur at times elsewhere of the island too. Fairly heavy above 75 mm are likely at some places, the Met. department said.<\/p>\n
Strong winds of about 40-50 kmph can be expected at times over Northern, North-central, Central, Western, North-western, Southern and Eastern provinces.<\/p>\n
Thus, the general public is kindly requested to take adequate precautions to minimize damages caused by temporary localized strong winds and lightning during thundershowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Meteorology Department says the deep depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal was located to 190 km southeast of Trincomalee at around 11:30 p.m. of November 26, 2024. It is likely to move north-northwestwards closer to the east coast of Sri Lanka and intensify further into a cyclonic storm today (November 27). Under influence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadstories","category-local"],"yoast_head":"\n