After a spell of fairly cool / cold weather across Tamil Nadu a spell of warmer than normal nights are ahead of us. While the wait for a meaningful spell of rains for the state continues for the 3rd week after a poor Northeast Monsoon the dry atmospheric conditions were holding a vice like grip…
Category: Weather Update
Rains bring relief to New Delhi from Dust / Pollution
Most of us know the peak pollution season in North India including New Delhi coincides with winter. A combination of atmospheric factors during winter, like temperature inversion, and few other man made factors like stubble burning, Construction activities etc increase the pollution levels drastically. Additionally the lack of regular rainfall activity during winter prevents the…
Low Pressure in Equatorial Bay under watch
In what could provide some hope Equatorial Bay is all set for a Low Pressure Area over the next few days. How much of an influence it will have over the rainfall prospects for Tamil Nadu remains to be seen as we wait for it to consolidate. Since the turn of 2019 it has all…
Cold Night likely over Suburbs of Chennai
While interior parts of Tamil Nadu has seen some abnormally cool nights Chennai has seen relatively milder winter conditions prevail so far with night time minimum temperatures dipping below 20ºC only twice this season at the IMD observatory in Nungambakkam. Similarly the Airport IMD observatory has dipped below 18ºC only once this year. Overall dry…
No Immediate Respite from Cold Nights over West Interior TN
Seasonal winter continues to move along over most of Tamil Nadu and rest of South India with mostly near normal or slightly below normal minimum temperatures prevailing during the night across the region. West Interior Tamil Nadu though has been exception seeing temperatures stay a couple of degrees below normal. Satellite Image over the Indian…