Nuwara Eliya
Nuwara Eliya flood risk right now: Normal. This is an estimate from rain and official warnings, because no river gauge is close enough to use.
Flood estimate
Irrigation Department has issued a flood warning for Mahaweli Ganga
Next 24 hours
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Experimental estimate. There is no river gauge in Nuwara Eliya.
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Based on: Calidonia gauge on the Mahaweli Ganga, 11 km away
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Moderate rain in the last 24 hours (21 mm). Light rain expected early this morning, about 8 mm in the next 24 hours.
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None of the Grama Niladhari divisions around Nuwara Eliya is in the Irrigation Department's maps of past floods on the Mahaweli Ganga (2012). Low spots can still flood.
This shows where a past flood reached, not a flood now. A bigger flood can go further.
Mahaweli Ganga · Sources: Department of Irrigation gauges, Open-Meteo rain, Disaster Management Centre warnings.
Fallen: estimated by a weather model (satellite rain is not available for this town). Forecast: Open-Meteo.
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