Several spells of showers are expected in the Eastern Province and in the Mullaitivu and Polonnaruwa districts on Friday, 13 November, the Department of Meteorology has forecast.
Showers or thundershowers will occur at several places in the Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central, Southern and Uva provinces after 1.00 p.m., the Daily Mirror reported, citing the department.
Misty conditions are expected during the early hours of the morning in the Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central and Uva provinces and in the Galle, Matara and Kurunegala districts.
The department asked the public to take adequate precautions to minimise damage from temporary localised strong winds and lightning during thundershowers.
What has changed since Thursday
The advisory is a step down in stated severity from the previous day’s. Thursday’s forecast, reported separately by this desk, warned of falls above 100mm at some places in five provinces. Friday’s advisory carries no rainfall threshold at all — no millimetre figure, and no “heavy falls” language.
The five provinces named for afternoon thundershowers are the same five that carried Thursday’s 100mm warning. What has dropped away is the quantitative warning attached to them, not the geography.
Two other points are worth separating:
- The misty-conditions advisory is unchanged from Thursday — the same four provinces plus the same three districts, Kurunegala among them. Kurunegala does not appear in the shower forecast; it is in the mist product only. These are two different Met products and should not be merged.
- The Eastern Province is new to the top line. On Thursday it was grouped with the Northern Province for intermittent showers; on Friday it leads the forecast, together with Mullaitivu and Polonnaruwa.
Context, stated carefully
Forecasters have been tracking a depression over the Bay of Bengal expected to bring heavy rain to the east coast from around 15 November. Friday’s eastern showers arrive ahead of that window, but the Met statement as reported draws no connection between the two, and this desk does not assert one.
The island is emerging from a wet spell that produced flooding and earth slips. LankaNewz has covered flood warnings on the Gin Ganga and Attanagalu Oya, spill gates opened at the Kotmale reservoir, a landslide at Gampola and NBRO landslide warnings.
Not reported
The forecast as filed gives no rainfall amounts in millimetres, no wind speeds, and no named official — it is attributed to the department as an institution. It says nothing about sea conditions or fishing advisories, and gives no outlook beyond Friday.
Sourcing note: this report rests on a single verified outlet’s account of the Met statement, filed under the byline of Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama. A sweep of the Daily Mirror and Hiru News rails found no second filing on the Friday advisory. Province and district lists above are taken from that one statement and have not been combined with any other weather product.