Most of last week saw a precursor to Northeast Monsoon show up over peninsular India with Easterlies running the show across the region instead of the seasonal westerlies that is the halmark of Southwest Monsoon. The temporary Easterlies under the influence of the circulation in South Bay area though has now given way to the…
Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam
Temporary reduction in thunderstorms over Peninsular India
Any rainfall spell be it monsoon or thunderstorms need to provide for breaks in between in order to maintain the balance. The last few days saw pretty much a very active spell of thunderstorms over large parts of Peninsular India with many places in South interior Karnataka like Ramanagara, Bengaluru witnessing localized flooding. Similarly many…
Widespread thunderstorms likely over West Interior TN
Southwest Monsoon 2022 without doubts has been very good for most of Tamil Nadu with almost all the districts seeing above normal rains so far. As a matter of fact districts like Theni has recorded nearly 3 times the average rains with 15 districts overall recording twice the average rains in the state as of…
Peninsular India to see sustained thunderstorm activity
As we get closer to September we get to a stage where one starts to think of the window for Southwest Monsoon to start its withdrawal. Just like how the onset of monsoon is spread out over a few weeks the withdrawal is also spread over weeks with Northwest India the last point for monsoon…
Enhanced Rainfall Activity over Interior Peninsular India
Sunday night and the early hours of Monday saw fairly widespread thunderstorms around Chennai and suburbs with some very intense groundstrikes happening over parts of the city. Subsequently we have seen thunderstorm activity persist over the KTCC region with city areas getting an intense spell during the early morning hours of Wednesday. With Monsoon dynamics…