The Department of Meteorology has issued an advisory for strong winds, heavy showers and rough seas for multi-day boats in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea areas, effective for the next 24 hours, starting from 01.00 pm today.
According to the department, the Depression over the southeast Arabian Sea has moved slowly north-northeastwards with a speed of 3 kmph during the past 6 hours and lies centred at 0000 UTC of today (23) over the same region near latitude 9.7°N, longitude 67.7°E.
The department warns that it is likely to move northeastwards across the southeast Arabian Sea during the next 24 hours.
As such, the wind speed in the sea areas will increase to 55-65 kmph at times with heavy thundershowers, and those sea areas will be rough or very rough at times. (Newswire)
