With the last week of May almost upon us, most of India starts looking forward to the onset of Southwest Monsoon over Kerala with more often than not monsoon already touching down over parts of Andaman & Nicobar Islands. But as is the case on most occasions Chennai sings from a different hymn sheet on…
On 14th May both the IMD observatories of Chennai recorded the first 40°C of the year just as Cyclone Mocha was making landfall over the Myanmar coast as an Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm. Yesterday once again both the observatories recorded 40+ in the process recording the hottest day of the year. Interestingly for the past…
Cafe Mocha. Mokha, also spelled Mocha, or Mukha, is a port city on the Red Sea coast of Yemen. Until Aden and al Hudaydah eclipsed it in the 19th century, Mokha was the principal port for Yemen’s capital, Sanaa. Long known for its coffee trade, the city gave its name to Mocha coffee During the…
Over the years North Indian Ocean basin has seen some of the worst cyclone related natural disasters, 1970 Bhola Cyclone that hit Bangladesh and was one of the key factors in the creation of Bangladesh as an independent country, 1991 Bangladesh Cyclone that killed nearly 1.5 lakh people. 1999 Odisha Super Cyclone which saw more…
The Cyclone season over the North Indian Ocean has two episodes, the first one during April and May in what is effectively the pre monsoon season and subsequently between October and December which coincides with the Northeast Monsoon season and called as Post Monsoon season for better understanding. During Southwest Monsoon the presence of Tropical…
