After a lull of nearly 10 days Monsoon withdrawal picked up pace yesterday with IMD announcing the withdrawal of Southwests Monsoon from remaining parts of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh & Gujarat; most parts of Madhya Pradesh and some parts of Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh & Maharashtra. Looking at the satellite image we could see further withdrawal today […]
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Monsoon is a word. Northeast Monsoon is an emotion. Even this phrase possibly does not capture the complete gamut of emotions weather bloggers of Chennai and rest of Tamil Nadu go through while tracking Northeast Monsoon. This tracking picks up pace around end August early September when initial indications of Southwest Monsoon withdrawal start appearing […]
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In a dress rehearsal for the upcoming Northeast Monsoon season many parts of Tamil Nadu has been receiving widespread rains under the influence of the upper air cyclonic circulation that moved across South bay and subsequently into the southern parts of Peninsular India. By bringing temporary Easterlies the circulation created pseudo NEM conditions providing for […]
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Its been now a week since the Northeast Monsoon 2022 began from the statistical perspective. The first days performance has been below par even though the last couple of days have seen rains return over the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu. As against the long period average of 29.4 mm the Tamil Nadu & Pondicherry […]
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After a lull of few days rains returned over many parts of Chennai and suburbs yesterday with light to moderate rains happening during the morning hours. In a way these rains reminded of Northeast Monsoon when most of the rains happen during the early morning hours. But one should remember these pseudo Northeast Monsoon type […]
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