With cold wave conditions sweeping over most areas of India, temperatures have been dropping every where. Dry Cold Air has been enveloping all of Northern Hemisphere with the monsoon trough firmly establishing itself in Southern hemisphere. Peninsular India is no exception. Places in Deccan Plateau like Bangalore etc are seeing minimum temperature of about 13…
Chennai to see cold nights
Chennai’s winter has set in with 10th January seeing the lowest minimum temperature of the year at 17.9 Degrees in Meenambakkam and 19.0 Degrees. A short take on why the temperatures have dropped for Chennai, though it was expected. Currently Peninsular India is under the influence of a High Pressure Area near Gujarat which is…
Chennai’s Short Winter to take effect soon
There is a proverb in Tamil, காக்கைக்கும் தன் குஞ்சு பொன் குஞ்சு, Chennai might have a mild summer that’s called winter but its our very own winter and its time to enjoy it. Chennai’s short mild summer aka winter season will take effect shortly. The easterlies had been providing some moisture to the eastern coast of Peninsular…
January Cyclone Historical Perspective
IMD has officially acknowledged Northeast Monsoon has ended.Though the easterly winds would continue till possibly April the chances of rains would depend hugely on any synoptic conditions in the form of an easterly wave pushed in from Western Pacific or possibly any disturbance developing over in Bay of Bengal.
Northeast Monsoon Rainfall Analysis for Chennai (1958 to 2012)
Lot of discussions happen among weather enthusiasts on what factors provide a good Northeast Monsoon for Chennai. While there are a lot of factors that influence rains, this analysis is restricted to finding how ENSO & IOD have behaved during various rainfall years to get an understanding on what is an ideal correlation between the two…