It is not often one gets to see heavy to very heavy rains alert from IMD for districts in Tamil Nadu during the Southwest Monsoon months if one ignores the alert for places in Western Ghats. But the last couple of days have seen IMD issue heavy rains alert for few districts of Tamil Nadu…
Over the last couple of weeks though Monsoon has been relatively weak over Peninsular West Coast the classic Break in Monsoon scenario did not happen due to the prevalence of unfavorable Monsoon Oscillation dynamics. This meant even the leeward areas of Tamil Nadu also did not enjoy much thunderstorm activity though Westerlies were weaker than…
Thunderstorms have started to slowly pick up over Tamil Nadu with today seeing some fairly widespread thunderstorms over many parts of the state in the districts of Villuppuram, Cuddalore, Delta, Madurai, Dindigul, Karur & Salem. If one were to look at the position of the Monsoon trough the eastern end has shifted closer to the…
With August giving way to September slowly the discussion among weather bloggers start moving towards withdrawal of Southwest Monsoon & the thunderstorms associated with it. But over the last few years the monsoon withdrawal process has started only towards the end of September which has prompted IMD to revise the normal withdrawal dates over NW…
Over the last few days thunderstorms have slowly started making a return back over Tamil Nadu with many places in the coastal stretch benefiting from the return of sea breeze as well. In particular the coastal stretch between Delta & Ramanthapuram owe a lot to sea breeze for the good rains they have seen this…
