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Sri Lanka warned on heavy rains from deep depression off coast

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has been warned of a tropical weather system that will intensify into deep depression on November 7 and move parallel to the island’s eastern coast, bringing heavy rains and somewhat strong winds. Shortly before midnight on November 7, the system was in the Bay of Bengal, about 490 kilometres east-southwest of Pottuvil, Sri Lanka and 640 South East of Trincomalee and moving at a speed of 15 kilometres an hour, the Indian Meteorological Office said in tropical weather outlook for the Indian Ocean region. “It is very likely to intensify further into a deep depression during…

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