Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam

The Northeast Monsoon continues to provide some rains to South Coastal Tamil Nadu & delta districts.  Yesterday was no different with Ramanathapuram & Nagappattinam districts enjoying fairly widespread showers with one or two places getting moderate spells of rains. While today could see a slightly subdued day of rains for Tamil Nadu things are likely…

In a continuing story Northeast Monsoon 2016 is still struggling to build any meaningful momentum whatsoever.  The only solace is the isolated rains that has been continuing since the last few days unlike the completely dry cool weather that was prevailing the previous weeks.  Yesterday saw isolated moderate showers over a few places of South…

With Northeast Monsoon remaining subdued in Tamil Nadu with only isolated rainfall activity activity mostly in South Tamil Nadu weather watchers are possibly looking up to the next likely trigger from Bay of Bengal to bring about a change in conditions.  Yesterday we had posted about how bad things were on the Northeast Monsoon front…

Is Northeast Monsoon 2016 staring at an abyss?  The objective of this post is not to trigger a panic. But having observed the rainfall pattern for the last few weeks and looking at how things possibly could evolve we feel it is time for some Drought Management Action Plan to be put in place.  Tamil…

Yesterday saw rains in Tamil Nadu return to Coastal areas after a few days of dry spell.  Though the rains were not widespread, many places in Delta districts, Cuddalore & Kanchipuram districts got moderate spells of rains.  Northeast Monsoon continues to remain weak and is expected to remain weak for the next few days as…