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Sri Lanka to get heavy rain before depression hits Hambantota-Batticaloa coast

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka will experience heavy rains with flash flood risks over the next 24 hours from a deep depression offshore, ahead of it hitting the coast between Hambantota, and Batticaloa in the evening of January 09, a regional and national met offices said. The deep depression in the Bay of Bengal to the southeast of Sri Lanka was located about 230 km southeast of Pottuvil by 1600 hours of January 08. It was “is very likely to move west-northwestwards across southwest Bay of Bengal and cross Sri Lanka coast between Hambantota and Batticaloa between 5.30 p.m. to 11.30…

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