Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam

Interior Tamil Nadu saw fairly widespread rains yesterday with Salem, Vellore, Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri, Namakkal & Tiruvallur districts recording good rains right through the evening with reports of hailstorms at many places under the influence of Convective Radiation and Wind Instability.  Among the IMD weather stations Vrinchipuram on the banks of River Palar recorded 56 mm…

The active phase of the pre monsoon thunderstorm season over Peninsular India continues with another very good day estimated by models for South Interior Karnataka.  The last couple of days have seen some intense thunderstorms developed by convective heating and triggered by the wind convergence under the influence of trough extending from Central India. Today…

The Pre Monsoon season has been fairly OK for interior Tamil Nadu so far with many areas in the Western and Southern parts of the state enjoying decent spells of summer rains triggered by day time convective heating and aided by the changing wind directions and instability created by the wind pattern. But the biggest…

As Summer bears down across Tamil Nadu the wheels of motion has started to slowly churn towards the most critical weather event of the country the Southwest Monsoon.  A glance at the wind charts indicate the seasonal change process is slowly underway in anticipation of the Monsoon Onset.  A North South Trough that runs Perpendicular…

May has got to to a sedate start on the temperature front for Tamil Nadu as temperature have eased gradually with yesterday seeing no place in the state going past the 40°C mark, the threshold level to signify hot day, making it a moderately hot day across the state.  Even the traditional summer giants like…