The last couple of days have seen Chennai and suburbs witness late evening thunderstorm activity. These thunderstorms intensified closer to the coast bringing sudden burst of rains accompanied by gusty winds. Since the start of Southwest Monsoon season the IMD observatory at Chennai AP has recorded 7 rainy days. The observatory at Nungabakkam also has…
Southwest Monsoon continues to stutter its way across Peninsular India
Since the onset of Southwest Monsoon over Kerala it has been stuttering and stammering its way through Peninsular India. Though it arrived a couple of days before time the rainfall performance has been poor over the west coast state. As of 8th June the seasonal rainfall, since 1st June, stands at -32% overall. Thrissur, Kottayam…
Thunderstorms likely over many places in North TN / South AP
Since the onset of Monsoon over Kerala on 30th May interior Peninsular India has been seeing thunderstorms almost day. As is always the case chance for coastal places like Chennai improves when the steering winds get stronger. The steering winds at this time of the year is from the west in line with the seasonal…
Monsoon progress to remain weak but thunderstorms to light up interiors
Southwest Monsoon, the most anticipated weather event globally, made onset over the Indian mainland on 30th May. 1st June is the traditional onset date for Monsoon over Kerala (MOK). But this year helped by Cyclone Remal Monsoon touched Kerala shares two days in advance. Normally while monsoon touches Kerala coast South TN also sees onset…
Chennai and suburbs to remain the hottest part of Tamil Nadu
On Tuesday both the IMD observatories at Chennai recorded their hottest day of this year’s summer. While the airport observatory recorded 41.3°C the city observatory recorded 41.1°C. On Monday the Nungambakkam observatory recorded its first 40°C of the summer by reaching 40.6°C. Chennai AP observatory saw temperature of 39.8°C at 5:30 PM indicating how weak…