While Chennai possibly goes through its umpteenth rain break for this season its a good time to run a quick status check of the Northeast Monsoon 2014 for Tamil Nadu. This summary is as of 10th December, we will update by the weekend the status as of 17th December once IMD puts the data out.
Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam
Rain break for Chennai a firm possibility
Conditions were very good for Chennai to receive some rains yesterday and today morning. Despite most models are predicting and some strong hope from us and other weather blogs as well except for a few isolated rains last morning Chennai did not receive any decent spell of rain. Theoretically these two days were the…
Chennai in line to get its next spell of Rain
In yesterday’s post we had talked of Chennai’s lucky break for next spell of rains, it appears Chennai is indeed going to get the throw of dice from Bay of Bengal for the next spell of rains. We had hoped the Low Pressure trough prevailing near Andaman to extend in a NW direction for better…
Will Chennai get a lucky break?
As expected a low pressure trough exists near Andaman Islands. Will this develop into an organized disturbance, looks doubtful though with nature it is never impossible. But it would certainly push Easterlies strongly into Peninsular India. The low pressure trough is expected to move in a Westward direction towards Sri Lanka. Thanks to ITCZ being…
Chennai has to look at Hagupit for next spell of rains
As explained yesterday there is a mild Low Pressure Area that is showing signs of development in the Arabian Sea. Unfortunately for Chennai it is at a fairly low latitude to provide any major advantage for North TN, It is expected to continue in a Westerly direction towards Africa over the next few days. Unlikely…