When it rains in Sri Lanka, it can really rain – especially in the monsoon season as now.  The picture above was taken on Sunday 23rd May just before 10am and is of an incredible wall of rain about to make landfall.  So dense, it looked like fog until it arrived with bewildering intensity and wind so strong that I thought the balcony door lock had failed; it had not, but the wind was so strong that it took very much force on the frame to push the door open – and then needed a very strong grip to stop it slamming open and breaking its hinges.

The picture below was taken on Tuesday 25th May just before sunset and shows an angry sea being driven by an incoming storm.  There was no chance of seeing the sun though; just grey clouds everywhere.

Steve