After the many புலி வருது புலி வருது type Northeast Monsoon Onset dates, finally it is here. And it is back with a bang typical of a monsoon onset with widespread rains lashing coastal areas. While Chennai & surrounding areas were enjoying the rains until evening yesterday coastal areas like Cuddalore and delta started receiving rains since…
As most of Tamil Nadu awaits the onset of Northeast Monsoon many places around Chennai recorded light to moderate rains yesterday. Anna University recorded 27 mm while the automatic weather station at IMD Nungambakkam recorded 8 mm as this post was made. If one looks at the wind pattern it pretty much shows how the…
After many a false starts this year the onset of Northeast Monsoon may finally happen soon with things slowly falling into place for a moderate rainfall activity to happen over most of Tamil Nadu this week. The effect of Northerlies has started to wane & one can feel this with the reduced early morning chillness…
One of the often repeated phrases by meteorologists is how difficult it is to give weather forecasts for Tropical Areas. Bay of Bengal possibly signifies this best in the current context. The models are so inconsistent in their outputs due to ever changing dynamics that we are seeing outputs as crazy as very severe cyclones …
As we step into the 8th day of delay in Northeast Monsoon onset there is some progress seen in Bay of Bengal. The broad circulation that’s been lingering around the Equatorial waters and adjoining parts of South bay has developed a weak low pressure area off the coast of Sri Lanka. May be in sync…
