Over time is has been observed more cyclones forming over the Arabian Sea tend to take annular charecterestics compared to the cyclones forming over Bay of Bengal. Gonu, Megh, the cyclone that hit Oman during 1977 are all examples of cyclones that were either annular or were close to getting an annular structure. Very severe…
Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam
LPA likely in Arabian sea today or tomorrow
It is not often one gets to see multiple factors all falling in place favorably over the Indian Ocean Basin. Last couple of days have seen the influence of a high amplitude MJO over the Equatorial waters of Indian Ocean on the west side. This has also meant the ITCZ has pushed up across the…
Uptick in Rains likely over Peninsular India
Butterflies flying in the stomach is a feeling most of us would have got many a times in our life, awaiting the first board exam results, as a youngster while opening your first appointment letter, as a father waiting eagerly for the birth of your first child and the list will go on. Similarly for…
Signs of Seasonal Shift – Peeping Westerlies
Time & Tide waits for None, goes the proverb, similarly seasons also wait for none though it runs at its own pace coming early a few years & coming late a few years but they do check in as expected every year. As April gives way to May the weather bloggers of Indian Sub continent…
Monster MJO on its way to Indian Ocean
MJO, Madden Julian Oscillation is always surrounded with an aura among the weather bloggers and for that matter many professionally trained meteorologists across the globe for being the King among all tropical waves. When one goes through the rainfall patterns during Northeast Monsoon over the years it has always been linked with how MJO has…