Southwest Monsoon continues to be active over the West Coast of India with widespread rains over the coastal areas of Kerala, Karnataka & Maharashtra. Monday saw widespread rains at Nilgiris, Tirunelveli & Kanyakumari districts while many parts of Coimbatore also recorded good rains in Tamil Nadu. Valaparai recorded the highest 24 hours rainfall of the…
Active Monsoon Conditions to Prevail over West Coast
After a lot of false starts Southwest Monsoon finally started to flex its muscles with active monsoon conditions prevailing over most parts of West Coast of India for the last couple of days. For the 24 hours ending 8:30 AM, 25th June 2017 a lot of places in Maharashtra, South Gujarat, Coastal Karnataka got very…
Southwest Monsoon 2017 to Roar back to life
Southwest Monsoon 2017 has been stuttering & pottering along so far like a broken down car on an Autobahn frequently stopping and stalling along the way. The next few days is likely to be the first widespread active Monsoon spell for the West Coast under the influence of the off shore trough that now runs…
Chennai & Surrounding Areas receive good overnight Rains
After recording the hottest day in more than two weeks Good Overnight Rains lashed many parts of Chennai & Surrounding areas in the districts of Kanchipuram & Tiruvallur bringing much needed relief. While the early evening gave some isolated thunderstorms through localized development in few areas of North Chennai it set the tone for the…
Storage in Tamil Nadu Dams Remains Grim
It is more than three weeks since Southwest Monsoon started over the Indian Sub Continent but the storage levels over most dams & reservoirs of Tamil Nadu & the Cauvery Basin continue to be grim with no appreciable progress so far. More on that a little later as we quickly note the progress of Southwest…