Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam

After a fairly long break, Bay finally brings back life to Northeast Monsoon with some decent spells of rain to Chennai and surrounding areas since yesterday.  Crucially it has provided some extremely heavy rains to South Andhra Pradesh which has come as a boon which was reeling under a huge deficit for the year. North…

The Easterlies are slowly picking up in the Bay of Bengal. IMD has confirmed the existence of a Low Pressure Trough in the South West Bay as well.  As mentioned a couple of days in this blog, these two would slowly revive the rains for Tamil Nadu in the days to come. The Mild Low…

Finally some good news to share on the Rain front though how much of it would translate to Chennai is a billion dollar question. The first very important piece of good news for us is the slow momentum the Easterlies are building in the Bay of Bengal.  Over the next few days they would start…

Pretty much quite Northeast Monsoon all across the Southern Peninsula with practically no rains whatsoever for the last couple of days.  There is nothing major on the horizon to change things up either over the next few days.  A case of bizarre Northeast Monsoon continues with long dry spells with occasional heavy spells at some places…

No. of Cyclones that hit TN during December in the last 50 Years : 7 Average Cyclone Frequency : Roughly once in Seven Years Years that had Cyclones hitting TN in December : 1964, 1967, 1972, 1993, 2000, 2005, 2011 Last Cyclone to hit TN in December : Cycone Thane in the year 2011 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Thane Most…