Cyclonic storm ‘Lehar’ over Bay of Bengal

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The Meteorological Department said the severe cyclonic storm ‘Lehar’ remained more or less stationary over the Bay of Bengal but would not have a direct impact on Sri Lanka.

It is said to be located 200 km to the northeast of Jaffna and is moving towards India.

Meteorologist Dulari Fernando said however, some showers or thundershowers would occur at several places in the Western and Southern provinces on Thursday or Friday while fairly strong winds could be expected over the country and neighboring sea areas.

Meanwhile Indian weather officials said they were on the alert for a possible cyclonic storm that appears to be gathering strength and might head towards Sri Lanka.

The Indian media reported, that a leading US-based storm tracker suspects India’s south-east coast might not yet have seen the last storm of the ongoing North-East monsoon season.

It projects a scenario where the warm seas in the south-east Bay of Bengal, which link Sumatra (Indonesia) and Sri Lanka, spinning up the next storm.
Initial forecasts suggest that the likely storm heading towards northern most part of Sri Lanka and adjoining south-east Tamil Nadu coast. (Darshana Sanjeewa-DM Online)

Comments - 5

Shankar Tuesday, 26 November 2013 06:34 AM

Our Met department is suggest like usually our Politicians says nothing would affect Srilanka. As i am a Northern resident, i have followed Indian Meteorological department's predictions and they are very sharp on this.

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ANTON Tuesday, 26 November 2013 06:38 AM

REALLY ???

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EJP Tuesday, 26 November 2013 05:29 PM

India is really investing in lot of wind profiler RADARs to measure vertical wind velocities that helps in accurate prediction of weather. India has also deployed lot of underwater profilers and MET buoys stationed across Bay of Bengal, Arabian and Indian Ocean to measure sea surface temperature, currents, etc. It is said that when the avg temperature of deep sea crosses >25 Deg C, obviously the prospective of cyclone exists.

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puppet pRABU Wednesday, 27 November 2013 02:27 AM

Hope chennai damils get a toilet kleen atlast.

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leena Wednesday, 27 November 2013 04:23 AM

It says that comments will be moderated and "The website also has the right not to publish selected comment". How can ANY website publish a comment like the one above ? It only degrades the paper

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