The temperature of Colombo drops to 18.8 Celcius after 61 years and it will continue for another few days, the Met Department said.
Director General Met Department P.B. Samarasinghe said the prevailing weather condition was a result of the La Nina phenomenon in the sea. According to Samarasinghe, the nature of weather condition occurred only in every 200 years and it, which appeared 1913, has occurred this year.
He attributed the changed weather pattern due to man-made environmental degradation. destructive activities against nature. The temperatures of Nuwara Eliya and Batticaloa were reported 7.9 Celcius and 16.9 Celcius.