In a dress rehearsal for the upcoming Northeast Monsoon season many parts of Tamil Nadu has been receiving widespread rains under the influence of the upper air cyclonic circulation that moved across South bay and subsequently into the southern parts of Peninsular India. By bringing temporary Easterlies the circulation created pseudo NEM conditions providing for…
Active spell of thunderstorms ahead for Tamil Nadu
Its been now a week since the Northeast Monsoon 2022 began from the statistical perspective. The first days performance has been below par even though the last couple of days have seen rains return over the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu. As against the long period average of 29.4 mm the Tamil Nadu & Pondicherry…
Rains to continue over Peninsular India
After a lull of few days rains returned over many parts of Chennai and suburbs yesterday with light to moderate rains happening during the morning hours. In a way these rains reminded of Northeast Monsoon when most of the rains happen during the early morning hours. But one should remember these pseudo Northeast Monsoon type…
Transition thunderstorms to gradually pick up over Peninsular India
IMD announced further withdrawal of Southwest Monsoon from more parts of Northwest India yesterday. The monsoon has now withdrawn over all of Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh while withdrawing over most parts of Gujarat as well. The next few days though we might see very slow withdrawal as monsoon…
Statistical end to Southwest Monsoon 2022
Yesterday officially the Southwest Monsoon season came to an end with an overall performance of 6.5% above average. IMD has four seasons for statistical convenience. January and February mark the winter season, March to May is considered as summer season while June to September is the Southwest Monsoon season and October to December being the…