Thunder showers for several areas today (29)

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Department of Meteorology says that atmospheric conditions are getting favorable for evening thundershowers in Uva, Eastern, North-central, and Northern provinces during the next few days.

Several spells of showers will occur in Western, Sabaragamuwa, and North-western provinces and Kandy, Nuwara-Eliya, Galle, and Matara districts. 

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

Fairly heavy falls above 75mm may occur at some places in Uva, Eastern, North-central, and Northern provinces.

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 southward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri Lanka from the 28th of August to the 07th of September in this year. 

The nearest towns of Sri Lanka over which the sun is overhead today (29) are Manniyakulam, Ariviyal Nagar, and Valaiyanmadam about 12.11 noon.