Last couple of days have seen an uptick of Veppa Salanam thunderstorms over Tamil Nadu with intensity picking up as well. While southern suburbs of Chennai recorded heavy rains on Tuesday evening yesterday saw some moderate thunderstorms in places around Maduranthagam / Chengalpattu region. The up tick in Veppa Salanam thunderstorms have coincided with the…
Last evening saw intense spell of rains lash Chennai & Suburbs bringing a cheer to many people. While the core city areas of Chennai got light to moderate spells of rains the southern suburbs enjoyed a very strong spell of thunderstorm with the IMD Automatic Weather Station at KVK Kattupakkam, 30 kms to the south…
Last evening saw parts of Chennai receive short spell of sharp showers from thunderstorms triggered by the sea breeze front interacting with upper level Westerlies. While the IMD observatory at Nungambakkam recorded 7 mm the one at Meenambakkam recorded traces. The thunderstorms intensified closer to coast giving sudden burst of heavy rains which lasted only…
Southwest Monsoon has pretty much come to a grinding halt over Peninsular India over the last few days. Most of Kerala & Karnataka along with Konkan coast has been only seeing light to moderate rains during this period with last night showing some moderate rainfall activity along the Central Kerala Ghats and pretty much clear…
Most parts of Tamil Nadu have seen an increase in day time temperatures coinciding with more clearer skies on account of weakened monsoon dynamics over the west coast. Though Monsoon dynamics have weakened we have not got the classic break in monsoon conditions for thunderstorm activity to pick up over Tamil Nadu. Last evening saw…
