Highlights • Fairly heavy rainfall is predicted for the Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern, North Western, Central provinces and less rainfall is predicted for rest of the country during 1 - 7 May. • During the last week, average daily rainfall over Sri Lanka was 2.4 mm and hydro catchment areas received 4.0 mm. • During the last week, average daily ...
Highlights • Heavy rainfall (≥ 105 mm) is predicted for the Southern, Sabaragamuwa, Western, Uva, Central, Eastern, North Western, North Central provinces during 12 - 18 Oct. Fairly heavy rainfall (75 mm) is predicted for the Northern province during 12 - 18 Oct. • During the last week, average daily rainfall over Sri Lanka was 14.5 mm and hydro ...
Highlights: The WRF model predicts up to 65 mm of rainfall in Matale and Kandy districts on 4 th of April and Thanamalwila area on 5 th of April. Between 28 Mar-3 Apr: highest rainfall of 90 mm was recorded on the 29th in Gampaha and Kegalla districts. From 26 Mar-1 Apr: minimum temperature of 15 OC was recorded from ...
Highlights: Mostly less than 10 mm rainfall was seen in the country in the period from 6th-8th. However, on the 9th, 70 mm of rainfall was recorded in Puttalam and considerable rainfall was seen in Alawwa, Nttambuwa and adjoining areas. Within the week from 6th-11th, highest temperature of 35-40 0C was recorded in the Eastern part of the country while ...
Highlights: The NCEP weekly rainfall forecast predicts total rainfall between 95-105 mm in Kegalle, Ratnapura and Kalutara districts during 13th – 19th June. Between 6-12 Jun: up to 50 mm of rainfall was recorded in Ratnapura, Kalutara, Matara and Galle districts on the 6th. From 3-9 Jun: minimum temperature of 20 OC was recorded from Nuwara Eliya and Badulla districts ...
Highlights • Moderate rainfall (25mm-50mm) is predicted for the Colombo, Kalutara Ratnapura, Galle and Matara districts. The rest of the country is expected to have less rainfall during 8th - 12th July. • During the last week, hydro catchment areas have received 14.5mm of rainfall on average. On July 2, nearly one-foot high waves flooded into the land along ...
Highlights: The WRF model predicts up to 124 mm of rainfall in eastern coastal regions of Sri Lanka on the 27th and 28th. Between 17-23 Jan: highest rainfalls of 50 mm were recorded in Polonnaruwa district on the 20th and in Vakarai region on the 22nd. From 15-21 Jan: minimum temperature of 15 OC was recorded from Nuwara Eliya district ...
Highlights • Heavy rainfall is predicted for the Sabaragamuwa, Southern, Western, Central provinces and fairly heavy rainfall is predicted for rest of the country during 15 - 21 June. • During the last week, average daily rainfall over Sri Lanka was 3.1 mm and hydro catchment areas received 9.9 mm. Highest average rainfall 8.7 mm/day received to Western plains.. ...
Highlights: Up to 40 mm high rainfall was received by Colombo, Gampaha, Kegalle, Kurunrgala and Anuradhapura districts during the previous week. Galle and Matara districts also received up to 30 mm rainfall and apart from that more than 10 mm rainfall was not seen in the country. In April 2016 the entire country received below average rainfall except for ...
Highlights · The NOAA weekly rainfall forecast predicts up to 25 mm of total rainfall in most parts of the island during 26 Feb - 2 Mar.· Between 19 - 25 Feb: up to 140 mm of rainfall was recorded in Mannar district on the 22nd.· From 18 - 24 Feb: up to 36 km/h, easterly winds were experienced ...
Highlights: Up to 40 mm rainfall was observed in north eastern, western and southern regions of the country during 21st – 27th October. Kalkudah, Kalmunai and Kattankudy received heavy rainfall up to 220 mm on 24th October and rainfall up to 160 mm was observed in the ocean near Trincomalee while Trincomalee received rainfall up to 140 mm on ...
Highlights • The NOAA weekly rainfall forecast predicts up to 100 mm of total rainfall in Badulla, Nuwara Eliya and Kandy districts during 4- 9 May.• Between 29 Apr - 5 May: up to 140 mm of rainfall was recorded in Anuradhapura district on the 30th• From 28 Apr - 4 May: up to 18 km/h, northwesterly winds were ...
Highlights: The IRI weekly forecast predicts total rainfall between 75-100 mm in Ampara and Monaragala districts during 7th-12th Mar. Between 27 Feb- 5 Mar: up to 140 mm of rainfall was recorded in Batticaloa district on the 27th. From 25 Feb- 3 Mar: minimum temperature of 15 OC was recorded from Nuwara Eliya district while Kurunegala district recorded a maximum ...
Highlights: Rainfall during the previous week was concentrated in the south western region of the country. Kalutara district received the highest rainfall during the week (up to 160 mm). The surrounding districts and the south western sea received up to 100-120 mm rainfall. NOAA NCEP, IMD WRF and IRI CFS models predict more than 100 mm of rainfall in ...
Highlights • Light showers (25 mm) are predicted for the Sabaragamuwa, Southern, Northern, Uva provinces during 24 - 30 Aug. Fairly heavy rainfall (≥ 55mm) is predicted for the Sabaragamuwa, Southern, Western, Uva, Central, North Western provinces during 31 Aug - 6 Sep. • During the last week, average daily rainfall over Sri Lanka was 'light' (0.9 mm) and ...
NASA sees two tropical cyclones competing in the Indian OceanNASA's Terra satellite captured this visible image of Tropical Cyclone Jamala in the southern Indian Ocean (bottom) and the much larger Tropical Cyclone One B (01B) in the Northern Indian Ocean on May 10 at 04:25 UTC (12:25 a.m. EDT). Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response TeamThe Indian Ocean is alive ...
Highlights: During the previous week, wet weather conditions were experienced by Jaffna and Kilinochchi districts of the country. On 26th up to 35 mm of rainfall was recorded in Jaffna. As expected, the lowest temperature was recorded in Nuwara Eliya to be between 15- 20 0C. The maximum temperature of between 35-4O 0C was recorded in the northern and eastern ...
Highlights: East, south, west, central and south west regions of the country received rainfall during 30th March- 5th April. Highest rainfall of 90 mm was observed around Ratnapura and Balangoda on 30th March and 3rd April while central regions of Kegalle and Kurunegala and Haputale received rainfall up to 60 mm on these days. NOAA NCEP model predicts up ...
Highlights: SSignificant amount of rainfall was only observed in north central and central regions of the country on the 15th and 16th August with up to 70 mm magnitude. The rest of the country did not receive much rainfall. Dry conditions were observed in the northern, western and eastern regions of the country. NOAA models predict rainfall in south ...
Highlights: The NCEP weekly rainfall forecast predicts total rainfall up to 65 mm in Colombo, Ratnapura, Kalutara and Galle districts during 11th -17th July. Between 3 - 9 Jul: up to 60 mm of rainfall was recorded in Kegalla district on the 9th. From 24-30 Jun: minimum temperature of 20 OC was recorded from Nuwara Eliya and Badulla districts while ...
