Is it actually raining on Dalada Veediya right now or just the Met's afternoon bulletin
Met this morning said several spells of showers for Kandy. We were under a shop awning around 5 holding a kerb and it was spit, not a storm. Did the radar over the Maligawa actually do anything this afternoon or was today the 0.4 mm version. Not asking jacket vs umbrella. Asking whether it dumped while we were standing.
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Today's Met: showers in Kandy district, not a named thunderstorm over the lake. Hourly pages for the city were slight showers, high ~29°C, tiny totals. A spit during a Kumbal is normal August. A proper cell would empty the cheap seats and the procession still goes. If you are already wet, you are wet. If you are dry under an awning, you will probably stay mostly dry.
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