Met Department warns sea users as Bay of Bengal system may become cyclonic storm

Sri Lanka's Department of Meteorology has advised naval and fishing communities to stay out of several sea areas around the island. A depression in the Bay of Bengal, about 600 km northeast of Trincomalee, is expected to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm. The special warning was issued at 11.30 a.m. on November 15.

The system is forecast to move northwestwards while staying well off the eastern coast. It is expected to become a deep depression by November 16, a cyclonic storm later that night, and a severe cyclonic storm over the west-central Bay of Bengal by November 17.