Your weather update for Wednesday (13)

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Department of Meteorology announced that the low-level atmospheric disturbance in the vicinity of Sri Lanka moving away from the Island.

Showers will occur at times in Western, Sabaragamuwa, and Southern Provinces.

Showers or thundershowers will occur at several places elsewhere during the afternoon or night.

Fairly heavy showers above 75mm can be expected at some places in Eastern, Uva, North-central, and Northern provinces.

Fairly heavy showers above 50 mm can be expected at some places elsewhere too.

The general public is kindly requested to take adequate precautions to minimize damages caused by temporary localized strong winds and lightning during thundershowers.

On the apparent northward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri Lanka from 05th to 15th of April this year.

The nearest areas of Sri Lanka over which the sun is overhead today (13th) are Tayliankudiyiruppu (Mannar District), Kanakarayankulam, and Nedunkeni (Vavuniya District) and Naddiankandal (Mullaitivu District) at about 12:11 in the afternoon.