Colombo (News 1st); The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned that the depression in the Bay of Bengal is likely to turn into Cyclone Burevi. In less than a week after Cyclone Nivar swept past Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, another cyclone started to brew over the Bay of Bengal. The system will progress west-northwestward toward Sri Lanka and across the island country’s coast by Wednesday night. It will travel over enough warm water to become a cyclone and start to influence the Tamil Nadu coast from Wednesday onwards bringing isolated heavy rain and thunderstorms. Under the influence of the potential cyclone, widespread rainfall is forecast across Sri Lanka between Tuesday and Friday with a likelihood of isolated extremely heavy rainfall on Wednesday and Thursday.

Source: The Nation December 01, 2020 08:03 UTC