Exactly 6 years ago Cyclone Vardah one of the five Cyclones to have made a direct touchdown over Chennai peaking up to Category 1 in the Saffir Simpson scale made landfall over Chennai bringing the city to a complete standstill. It is important to mention here about two powerful cyclones that did come very close…
A few days back when weather models slowly started to align about a potential disturbance heading towards North TN coast there was a lot chatter among weather bloggers on whether the disturbance would head in the direction of North TN or would there be last minute twists and turns. As always the case cyclones in…
Cyclone Nivar in 2020, Cyclone Nilam in 2012 are some of the recent cyclones that made landfall close to Mahabalipuram / Marakkanam. In addition to having landfall close to Mahabalipuram / Marakkanam these cyclones shared two other characteristics as well, both of these moved from south bay area in a SE to NW direction going…
It may surprise naming of tropical cyclone has been existing for many years though the practice of naming cyclones in the North Indian ocean basin started a couple of decades back. While the practice of naming cyclones during the first half of the last century did not follow a pattern since 1953 tropical cyclones (hurricanes)…
On 4th December when the first COMK post was made to give a brief outlook on what to expect from the Bay disturbance that now lies as a depression about 700 kms SE of Nagapattinam it talked about taking the entire life cycle into three phases. The first phase when the overall theme in terms…
