This year’s Northeast Monsoon has been seeing a YoYo performance ever since the Media Hyped Red Alert for Tamil Nadu during the first week of October when the first widespread rains from Easterlies hit the state. After the initial highs during the first fortnight of October things went quiet completely leading to a delayed monsoon…
IMD announced the onset of Northeast Monsoon over parts of Tamil Nadu yesterday bringing a cheer to many a weather bloggers. Indicative of the fluid atmospheric dynamics the onset was announced only over South TN, Coastal TN along with South Kerala & South Coastal AP while the rest of the interior TN, South Interior Karnataka…
After the many புலி வருது புலி வருது type Northeast Monsoon Onset dates, finally it is here. And it is back with a bang typical of a monsoon onset with widespread rains lashing coastal areas. While Chennai & surrounding areas were enjoying the rains until evening yesterday coastal areas like Cuddalore and delta started receiving rains since…
As most of Tamil Nadu awaits the onset of Northeast Monsoon many places around Chennai recorded light to moderate rains yesterday. Anna University recorded 27 mm while the automatic weather station at IMD Nungambakkam recorded 8 mm as this post was made. If one looks at the wind pattern it pretty much shows how the…
After many a false starts this year the onset of Northeast Monsoon may finally happen soon with things slowly falling into place for a moderate rainfall activity to happen over most of Tamil Nadu this week. The effect of Northerlies has started to wane & one can feel this with the reduced early morning chillness…
