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The northern limit of monsoon continues to pass through near Colombo in Sri Lanka, an alignment not changed from yesterday.
The onset of monsoon here has been delayed by three days already; it is expected to happen later today or tomorrow.
Showers accompanied by fairly south-westerly strong winds have been forecast for western, Sabaragamuwa and central provinces and in Galle and Matara.
Sri Lanka is the penultimate stop for the monsoon before it reaches India’s southwest coast along Kerala.
Normally, it takes five days for the monsoon to run the ‘last mile’ from Sri Lanka to the Kerala coast.
Meanwhile, India Meteorological Department (IMD) says conditions are favourable for advance of monsoon into parts of southeast Arabian Sea during the next two days.
Some more parts of Maldives and the Comorin areas are also expected to be covered by the monsoon in the process.
Prevailing winds this morning are west-north-westerly over Thiruvananthapuram, capital of Kerala, the gateway for the southwest monsoon for mainland India.
Skies have been cloudy, and the city witnessed one or two spells of light showers since the morning.
The west-northwesterly flows are attributed to the presence of a ridge-like formation in the central Arabian Sea.
This formation has anti-cyclonic (clock-wise) circulation around it, which is inhibiting the initiation of the south-westerly flows associated with monsoon.
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