Northeast Monsoon saw one of its best days of the season yesterday as perfect conditions created by Easterlies and enhanced by the presence of MJO over the Indian Ocean brought widespread rains across almost all of Tamil Nadu with many places recording heavy rains. Chennai city has been getting spells of rains right through since…
Many a time people wonder what is the influence of MJO over Northeast Monsoon. The easiest example to relate about the influence of MJO over Northeast Monsoon is to compare the years 2015 & 2016. The former saw a favorable MJO circuit over Indian Ocean during NEM time while the latter saw the first visit…
While most weather bloggers get carried away by Planetary waves like MJO, ER, CCKW etc sometimes its the underrated weather factors like Easterly Tropical waves that go about doing their jobs without any fuss. To give a footballing analogy for all the attacking riches the Galacticos of Real Madrid during the early years of this…
When it Rains it Pours goes the saying. This is almost always applicable to Chennai & suburbs. Though the city area once again missed out the southern suburbs of Chennai received the heaviest spell of this year’s Northeast Monsoon season as many private weather stations recorded triple digit rainfall scores around the southern suburbs &…
After a lull of few days yesterday evening saw the return of rain bands over Coastal areas of North Tamil Nadu as parts of Cuddalore district and adjoining areas of Pondicherry recorded moderate to heavy spells of rains in the night. While the IMD observatory at Cuddalore reocrded more than 6 cms of rains neighbour…
