The latest Climate and Food Security Monitoring Bulletin

The latest Climate and Food Security Monitoring Bulletin looks into the key aspects of climatic seasonal trends and their impact on the population and food security during the fourth quarter of 2020 and 1st quarter of 2021, and climate outlook for 2021 “Yala” cropping season. It further highlights on status of water, agriculture, health and social impacts of the situation during this period.

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ඊසාන දිග බෙංගාල බොක්ක ප්‍රදේශයේ වර්ධනය වන අඩුපීඩන කලාපය පිළිබද  නිවේදනය

බෙංගාල බොක්ක ආශ්‍රිත මුහුදු ප්‍රදේශයේ මැයි මස 23 වන දින වන විට අඩු පීඩන තත්වයක් වර්ධනය වීමේ හැකියාවක් පවතින බැවින් මැයි 21 වන දින සිට නැවත දැනුම් දෙන තුරු ඊසාන දිග බෙංගාල බොක්ක ආශ්‍රිත මුහුදු ප්‍රදේශයේ තුළ ධීවර සහ නාවුක කටයුතු වලින් වැළකී සිටින ලෙස කාලගුණවිද්‍යා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විසින් නාවුක සහ ධීවර ප්‍රජාවට දැනුම් දී ඇත.

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Disaster Management Centre to the Fore in Facilitating Public Private Partnership (PPP) in COVID-19 Response

In response to the 3^rd Wave of the COVID -19 pandemic, HSBC Sri Lanka donated Rs. 8 Million worth of medical equipment including ventilators and oxygen machines to the health sector. The initiative was facilitated under the leadership of the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) and A-PAD Sri Lanka.

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Sri Lanka Flood Situation update “Tauktae”

Due to the recent storm “Tauktae” Sri Lanka experienced heavy rainfall with high winds from 13th May early morning till 14th May and most parts of the South Western region received more than 250mm rainfall within 24 hours and maximum reported was 336mm in Agalawatta (Kalutara). As a result due to heavy rainfall, strong winds and few landslides a total of 48,300 people (12,177 families) got affected in ten (10) districts, since 13th May 2021. Furthermore, 5 deaths were reported and 3 persons suffered minor injuries due to floods and cutting-failures.  As per data 3 houses fully and 860 houses partially, have been damaged mostly in the Gampaha, Galle, Matara and Colombo districts. At present in certain places, most of the rivers in these areas are at the threshold level while few reservoirs are also at spill levels.

Click on the following link to access the Sri Lanka Flood Situation update “Tauktae”  

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