During the year 2016 IMD brought about an end to the system of calling “Droughts” and instead decided to use terms like “Deficient Year” / “Largely Deficient Year” etc. Similar changes were made at all the spatial levels as well while providing status of Monsoon Rains. IMD classifies an area deficient if the overall rains…
Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam
Bay Circulation could provide another bonus spell of rains over leeward Peninsular East Coast
Over many centuries the eastern coast line of the Indian Sub Continent has been shaped through an interaction of floods, sea and cyclones. There are a few areas which show a pronounced concave shape while a couple of them show a convex shape in the coastline. If one were to plot the strongest cyclone landfalls…
Thunderstorm window for Tamil Nadu amidst a Monsoon Powerplay Phase
Fielding restrictions have been existing in limited overs cricket through some form or the other for nearly 50 years. A new wave of attacking batsmanship from cricketers like Ian Botham and Mark Greatbatch during the 1992 Cricket World Cup brought about by the 2 fielders outside the 30 yard circle restriction for the first 15…
Southwest Monsoon continues to totter along
“totter” : to walk with difficulty in a way that looks as if you are about to fall Cambridge Dictionary With three weeks of June gone it is not often one gets to see a Southwest Monsoon onset chart from IMD not covering the megapolis of Mumbai. In a way one can see a lot…
Developing Bay Circulation to bring Summer to a grinding halt
Summer of ’23 will possibly be etched in the memories of Chennai citizens as firmly as Summer of ’69 remains in the memories of rock fans. The couple of years coinciding with the Covid pandemic saw a relatively below par summer for Chennai leading widespread talk about the pandemic induced reduction in commercial activity reducing…