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The Department of Meteorology today issued a Red Alert on adverse weather conditions due to the depression in the Bay of Bengal that is turning into Cyclone ‘Burevi’, which could result in high wind and heavy windfall in the Northern, North-Central, Eastern and North Western parts of the country.
The system is very likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm during the next 24-hours which will likely cross the country, it said.
The system is likely to move West-Northwest wards and across the eastern coast of Sri Lanka between Batticaloa and Point-Pedro around today (December 2) evening and night.
While issuing a weather forecast yesterday for next 24-hours, the Metrology Department said very strong gusty wind at a speed of between 80 and 100 kmph in Northern, North-Central, Eastern and North Western provinces on Tomorrow (2) and day after (3).
Meanwhile, the department warned about intermittent showers at many places in Northern, North-Central, Eastern and North Western provinces over 200mm tomorrow and day after.
The general public was requested to be vigilant regarding impending extreme weather situation.
They also requested people to be attentive about future adversaries issued by the Department. (Chaturanga Samarawickrama)
S.P.A. De Silva Wednesday, 02 December 2020 12:16 AM
The BBC and the Indian Met Dept have been reporting this from the time the 'low pressure area' developed, predicting its development into a cyclone with SL being in its firing line! Its possible path across SL was also given in the Indian website. Our officials and the media have been sitting on it all this time. An officer working for the Min of Disaster Mgt when contacted on 30th Nov (unofficially) said that they were waiting for the Dept of Met to 'confirm' !!! Now we have a warning which is very much a 'copy, cut, paste' from the Indian website. Once the damage is done, we will be shown floating school books and whatever other damage. The Media Orgs will compete with each other to tell us about their 'relief ops'. The correct action would have been to warn the citizens at the very first instance we had details of this weather system so they would have had sufficient time to move to safety. The children most certainly would have taken their books with them. WE NEVER LEARN?
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