Northeast Monsoon, the retreating monsoon, is the lifeline of Tamil Nadu with the coastal districts getting 60% of the annual rainfall during these three months of October – December. Interior districts get more than 40% of the rainfall during Northeast Monsoon. The Normal onset date of Northeast Monsoon is around October 20th with +/- 7…
Tamil Nadu Weather – Isolated Rain Prospects for North TN
After a few days of getting almost daily rains, most parts of TN had a break from rains except for some isolated spells of rains over North TN. These spells were neither heavy nor widespread. The wind patterns have changed back to Westerlies after a few days of Easterlies weather thanks to the circulation in…
Southwest Monsoon ends at 14% Deficit Nationally
Southwest Monsoon officially has come to an end with an overall deficit of 14% in comparison to long term average rainfall. East & Northeast India ended up as the region with least negative anomaly of 8% less than normal rainfall while Northwest India ended up the worst region at 17% deficit. From today the rainfall…
Tamil Nadu Weather – Another day of rains for Interiors
With Northeast Monsoon around the corner the rainfall pattern would shift to early morning rains. In order to provide a better representation of the evolving weather picture we will try to post the expected events for the day the previous day evening from today. We hope this would be beneficial for all those who actively…
Chennai Weather – Shape of Things to Come
Yesterday afternoon saw isolated places in Chennai get rains in the afternoon with Kolapakkam roughly 3 kms to the west of Chennai Airport got 24 mm rains with areas like Anna Nagar, Madhavaram and parts of West Tambaram also getting rains.