The Meteorology Department says the deep anxiety 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 magnify even more into a cyclonic storm today (November 27).
Under impact of the system cloudy skies will dominated most parts of the island, extremely heavy showers and strong gusty winds can be expected in Northern, North-central, Eastern, North-western and Central provinces, it added.Showers or thundershowers will occur at times in Northern, North-central, Central, western and North-western provinces and in Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Kegalle districts.
Extremely heavy showers above 150 mm are likely at some places.Showers will occur at times in other places of the island too.
Relatively heavy above 75 mm are most likely at some locations, the Met.
department said.Strong winds of about 40-50 kmph can be expected at times over Northern, North-central, Central, Western, North-western, Southern and Eastern provinces.Thus, the general public is kindly requested to take sufficient safety measures to decrease damages brought on by short-term localized strong winds and lightning during thundershowers.