Cyclonic Storm Expected to Develop in Bay of Bengal by Tomorrow (16th)

COLOMBO (News 1st): The low-pressure area located to the East of Sri Lanka, in the Bay of Bengal, has developed into a ‘Depression '. The system was located approximately 630 km northeast of Trincomalee, slightly East of the Northeast direction by 11:30 a.m. today.

It is highly likely that the system will continue to move away from Sri Lanka and intensify into a ‘Cyclonic Storm’ by tomorrow evening, (November 16th) over the southern and adjacent west-central Bay of Bengal, and further intensify into a ‘Severe Cyclonic Storm’ over the west-central Bay of Bengal by the 17th November.

Due to the influence of this system, cloudy skies will prevail over the entire island tomorrow.

Several spells of showers will occur in the Northern, North-central, Eastern, Western, Sabaragamuwa and North-western provinces and in the Kandy, Nuwara-Eliya, Galle and Matara districts.

Showers or thundershowers may occur a few places in the Uva province and Hambantota district after 2.00 p.m.

The general public is kindly requested to take adequate precautions to minimize damage caused by temporary localized strong winds and lightning during thundershowers.

Misty conditions may prevail in most parts of the island during the early morning hours.