COLOMBO (News 1st):- The Department of Meteorology states that showers or thundershowers could be experienced in the Sabaragamuwa and Western provinces as well as in the Galle, Matara and Nuwara Eliya districts in the evening today (January 17).

The Department states that intermittent showers could also be expected in the Eastern and Uva provinces and the Hambantota district.

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