A cyclone will reach the coast bringing severe rain, possible flooding and winds powerful enough to bring down large tree branches.
A strong winter weather system has the potential to develop into a bomb cyclone off the East Coast later this weekend.
COLOMBO — Cyclone Ditwah, which claimed around 650 lives and left at least 200 people missing, cast a heavy pall of gloom over Sri Lanka from the moment it entered the island’s skies Nov. 28. By Dec.