Extreme weather to continue (3 items)

කැළඹිලි අවපීඩනයක්‌ වී වැසි වැඩි වන ලකුණු
මුහුද රළු වෙයි! ධීවර කටයුතු ප්‍රවේශමෙන්
තුෂාරී කළුබෝවිල

දිවයින ආශ්‍රිතව පැවැති කැළඹිලි ස්‌වභාවය අවපීඩන කලාපයක්‌ බවට පරිවර්තනය වීමත් සමඟ වැසි තත්ත්වයේ වැඩි වීමක්‌ සිදුවී ඇතැයි කාලගුණ විද්‍යාඥ චමින්ද ද සිල්වා මහතා "දිවයින" ට පැවැසීය.

ඒ අනුව දිවයිනේ උතුරු, නැගෙනහිර, උතුරු මැද, ඌව පළාත්වලට අමතර ව මධ්‍යම, දකුණු පළාත්වල සහ බස්‌නාහිර පළාතේ ඇතැම් ස්‌ථානවල තද වැසි ඇති විය හැකි බව ඒ මහතා කීවේය.

සුළගේ වේගය ද තවදුරටත් වැඩිවීම හේතුවෙන් මුහුද රළුවන බවත්, ධීවර හා නාවික ප්‍රජාව ඒ පිළිබඳ විමසිලිමත් වන ලෙසත් ඒ මහතා සඳහන් කළේය.

මධ්‍යම පළාතට ද වැසි වැඩි වී ඇති බැවින් නාය යැම් අවදානමක්‌ පවතින බව ගොඩනැඟිලි පර්යේෂණ ආයතනයේ නායයැම් අංශ ප්‍රධානී ආර්. එම්. එස්‌. බණ්‌ඩාර මහතා කීවේය.

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Cold, wet weather until mid January

Ridma DISSANAYAKE

The chilly temperature and rain experienced in Sri Lanka will continue until mid January, the Meteorology Department said yesterday.

The atmospheric disturbance in the vicinity of Sri Lanka has intensified into a low pressure area and is affecting the weather over Sri Lanka and sea areas, the Department said.

The wet weather will continue over the Eastern, Northern, North-central, Uva, Central and Southern provinces. Heavy falls and strong winds at times are expected at some places, the Department report said.

Thunder showers can be expected in Anuradhapura, Batticaloa, Galle, Jaffna, Kandy, Nuwara-Eliya and Trincomalee. Scattered showers will be experienced in Ratnapura in the next two days.

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More bad weather

by Dasun Edirisinghe

The Meteorological Department yesterday predicted more rains in the Northern, Eastern, North Central, Uva, Central and Southern Provinces in the next two days as a low pressure area developed in the atmosphere with the Northeast monsoonal conditions setting in.

Meteorologist – in – charge P. G. Yasaratne told The Island that showers and thundershowers would occur in those provinces during the day and especially in the evening.

"The atmospheric disturbance in the vicinity of Sri Lanka has intensified into a low pressure area and is affecting the weather over Sri Lanka and surrounding sea areas," he said.

Yasaratne said however that heavy rain fall and strong winds at times are also expected at other areas of the country.

Showers or thundershowers would continue in the sea areas too and fishermen were advised to be precautionary to avoid possible calamities, he said.

According to him, the sea areas off the southern, south-eastern, eastern and northern coasts are particularly would be rough.

"Winds will be from north-easterly direction and speed will be 40-50 km/h," he said adding that the speed may increase up to 60-70 km/h at times.

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