Sri Lanka’s bizarre cyclone Ditwah that stayed and stayed and rained and rained

ECONOMYNEXT – Cyclone Ditwah was an unusual weather system that developed too close to Sri Lanka’s coast, intensified suddenly and lingered an extraordinarily long time over Sri Lanka, dumping massive volumes of water on the Indian Ocean island. In the last 125 years, when 16 cyclones hit the island, Cyclone Ditwah stands out like a sore thumb, meteorologists say. Late Development Cyclones usually form far away in the Bay of Bengal, giving advance warning of a week or more in some cases as the weather systems move across the Bay of Bengal, says Ajith Wijemannage, Director at the Department of…

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