Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam

Southwest Monsoon continues to be active over the West Coast of India with widespread rains over the coastal areas of Kerala, Karnataka & Maharashtra.  Monday saw widespread rains at Nilgiris, Tirunelveli & Kanyakumari districts while many parts of Coimbatore also recorded good rains in Tamil Nadu.  Valaparai recorded the highest 24 hours rainfall of the…

After a lot of false starts Southwest Monsoon finally started to flex its muscles with active monsoon conditions prevailing over most parts of West Coast of India for the last couple of days.  For the 24 hours ending 8:30 AM, 25th June 2017 a lot of places in Maharashtra, South Gujarat, Coastal Karnataka got  very…

Southwest Monsoon 2017 has been stuttering & pottering along so far like a broken down car on an Autobahn frequently stopping and stalling along the way.  The next few days is likely to be the first widespread active Monsoon spell for the West Coast  under the influence of the off shore trough that now runs…

After recording the hottest day in more than two weeks Good Overnight Rains lashed many parts of Chennai & Surrounding areas in the districts of Kanchipuram & Tiruvallur bringing much needed relief.  While the early evening gave some isolated thunderstorms through localized development in few areas of North Chennai it set the tone for the…

It is more than three weeks since Southwest Monsoon started over the Indian Sub Continent but the storage levels over most dams & reservoirs of Tamil Nadu & the Cauvery Basin continue to be grim with no appreciable progress so far. More on that a little later as we quickly note the progress of Southwest…