With Southwest Monsoon dynamics strengthening parts of Tamil Nadu along with rest of Peninsular India will start to see an increase in surface winds from the West. Those who follow the energy sector closely know the peak production period for Wind Mills in Tamil Nadu, the state with highest wind energy in the country, coincides…
Southwest Monsoon has been going through a fairly subdued phase for the past few days even though isolated heavy rains have been seen in one or two places over the West Coast. In particular monsoon has almost been negligible south of 15N latitude with no appreciable rains in Kerala & most of Karnataka. The last…
Monsoon break is synonymous with thunderstorms over Tamil Nadu where large parts of the state are rain shadow region. A convective process that has interplay of two important factors, Sun & Wind, creates these thunderstorms during late afternoons / evenings. It has been repeated many a times when the West Coast sleeps the East Coast…
The Veppa Salanam Rains in Tamil Nadu as most common public know or rains triggered by Instability induced thunderstorms notched up a gear yesterday as many parts of the state recorded good rains. Salem recorded a massive 134 mm in a couple of hours breaking the all time record for highest rains, 125.5 mm on…
While Rains in Chennai has continue to be elusive for the past few days even though places not far away from Chennai has seen spells of light to moderate rains during the past week in particular the stretch around Ponneri / Pulicat has seen moderate thunderstorms hit regularly. Yesterday was one of the better days…
