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Fairly heavy falls of about 50 mm are likely at some places in the Northern province today (11). Showers or thundershowers may occur at several places in the Western and Sabaragamuwa provinces and in the Galle and Matara districts after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5527","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 v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Showers predicted for Northern, North-Central, Eastern, Central and Uva 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=5527\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Showers predicted for Northern, North-Central, Eastern, Central and Uva provinces - LANKA NEWS NETWORK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Showers or thundershowers have been predicted for the Northern, North-Central, Eastern, Central and Uva provinces. 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