Met Dept’s digital display gives stale news

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The Meteorology Department’s digital display erected within its premises in Colombo was seen displaying ‘0’mm for the rainfall category even during the torrential rains today.

A photo which showed this peculiar weather characteristic was captured by a passerby. The digital display had been installed to show the daily weather report.

When contacted, an official of the Department said the display, which is updated automatically had stalled recently.

“Since the data is not updated automatically, it needs to be done manually. The weather characteristics on the digital display were the ones appearing the previous day. Since there was no rain on Wednesday, the display showed a ‘0’ mm rainfall,” they said.

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arun Thursday, 18 May 2017 09:18 PM

now this is because of yahapalanaya people will say.......aiyo salli via DM Android App

Banda Thursday, 18 May 2017 09:32 PM

Inactivity incapability at every level of the government via DM Android App

Ahmed Thursday, 18 May 2017 09:38 PM

why this is on news ?

BRO Thursday, 18 May 2017 09:38 PM

This is not yahapalanaya or yamapalanaya, it is SRI LANKA and it is normal.

DHA Thursday, 18 May 2017 09:51 PM

Haaaaa

Lord Wolfstein Friday, 19 May 2017 07:48 AM

USUALLY LATE. Like everything in Sri Lanka: railway, Sri Lankan Airlines, payments, investigations, court cases, introduction of laws, disaster aid, reconciliation and so on.

lakstan Friday, 19 May 2017 08:51 AM

Come on,The officer in charge couldn't have reported to work.

Ravi Friday, 19 May 2017 04:20 PM

This is an always breakdown digital display!

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