Southwest Monsoon has be behaving like a wildly swinging pendulum with this year’s intra seasonal oscillation showing a great deal of variance in terms of behavior compared to the usual pattern. There have been many days this season where the leeward side of Coastal Tamil Nadu & the windward side of West Coast of India…
For second straight day Thunderstorms lashed most parts of Chennai with many places recorded 5 to 7 cms of rains in just about an hour or so last evening. Not only did Chennai get good rains many parts of Tamil Nadu also got very good rains including Kanchipuram, Villuppuram dts. The rain rates at some…
Southwest Monsoon continues to remain active over the West Coast with some parts of South Konkan, Coastal Karnataka & adjoining areas of Western Ghats. Though there are some concerns over whether the southern parts of Peninsular India will remain as active as the northern parts of Peninsular India. Seasonal outlooks though have been consistently hinting…
Southwest Monsoon has been flexing its muscles on & off for the past couple of days, while it remains debatable whether the cloud burst like rains that happened over parts of Kangra district in Himachal Pradesh were Monsoon Rains or Thunderstorms derived out of atmospheric instabilities. Of course there is always a question whether Thunderstorms…
Over the past few years instances of extreme rainfall episodes are becoming pronounced, 2015 Chennai Floods, 2018 Floods over Kerala & Karnataka, 2020 Cuddalore Floods are a few examples of some of these extreme rainfall episodes when rains meant for months are falling in a mere days. The challenge before the Weather Community is not…
