{"id":3644,"date":"2025-04-07T09:17:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T03:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.lankanewsnetwork.com\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2025-04-07T09:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T03:48:08","slug":"heavy-rainfall-likely-in-several-provinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.lankanewsnetwork.com\/?p=3644","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rainfall likely in several provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Meteorology Department says that showers or thundershowers will occur at most places of the island during the afternoon or night.<\/p>\n<p>Showers may occur in Western province and Galle and Matara districts in the morning too.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rainfall of above 100 mm are likely at some places in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central, Southern, Uva and North-central provinces and in Ampara District, the Met Department said.<\/p>\n<p>Misty conditions can be expected at some places in Sabaragamuwa, Central, Uva and North-central provinces during the morning.<\/p>\n<p>The general public is kindly requested to take adequate precautions to minimize damages caused by temporary localized strong winds and lightning during thundershowers, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri Lanka during 05th to 14th of April in this year.<\/p>\n<p>The nearest areas of Sri Lanka over which the sun is overhead today (07) are Colombo, Awissawella, Talawakelle, Dimbula, Galakumbura and Dambagalla at about 12:12 noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Meteorology Department says that showers or thundershowers will occur at most places of the island during the afternoon or night. 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Heavy rainfall of above 100 mm are likely at some places in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central, Southern, Uva and North-central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadstories","category-local"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Heavy rainfall likely in several provinces - LANKA NEWS NETWORK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/english.lankanewsnetwork.com\/?p=3644\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Heavy rainfall likely in several provinces - LANKA NEWS NETWORK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Meteorology Department says that showers or thundershowers will occur at most places of the island during the afternoon or night. 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