Southwest Monsoon has been extremely vigorous over the West Coast bringing extremely heavy rains over many places in Western Ghats. Both Godavari & Krishna basin has been getting very heavy inflows leading to large scale flooding over Peninsular India. In particular North Karnataka is possibly seeing historic water levels in Krishna & it’s tributaries like…
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Active Monsoon Conditions Persist
Southwest Monsoon has been vigorous over the West Coast with many places along the Ghats all the way from Maharashtra to Tamil Nadu seeing heavy rains. Mukurthi Peak recorded 31 cms for the 24 hours ending today morning. With West coast seeing active monsoon conditions it’s likely to be a very windy day over many…
Heavy Rains Ahead for Mumbai
Vigorous Monsoon conditions over parts of Konkan Coast has been bringing heavy rains to many places along the Maharashtra Coast and the Shahyadris. The IMD observatory at Mumbai Airport, Santa Cruz has recorded 173 mm till 5:30 today morning. Satellite images show intense clouding off the Konkan Coast under the influence of strong monsoon surge…
Decisive phase of Monsoon Ahead for Cauvery Basin
The first fortnight of August is shaping up to be the Make or Break Phase for the Cauvery Basin. Through our repeated posts we have been highlighting the pressure Cauvery Basin has been seeing this year on the back of a poor monsoon so far over the catchment areas in Kerala & Karnataka. Satellite images…
Tamil Nadu Dam Storage Status with half the Monsoon gone
All of us know majority of Tamil Nadu is a rain shadow region as far as Southwest Monsoon goes. But when one looks at the catchment areas of all major irrigation dams of the state they are dependant on Southwest Monsoon for inflows. This is one of the key reason why most weather bloggers track…