After a few days of dry weather parts of Coastal Tamil Nadu saw light to moderate rains early this week. The scrambled winds at lower levels meant conditions were conducive for weak thunderstorm activity to develop in a few areas triggered by convective development due to warmer than normal conditions during the day time. Even…
Dry Weather to persist over most of Tamil Nadu
The last few days dry weather has slowly taken control over most parts of Tamil Nadu with rains completely fading away from not only coastal areas but also the places closer to the Western Ghats where particularly the Eastern Slopes see rains through trapped moisture effect at isolated places even if almost all of the…
Dry Weather gives Harvest Window for Paddy Farmers of Tamil Nadu
Just as Pongal festivities started to gradually wind down parts of Coastal Tamil Nadu, particularly North TN around Chennai & Suburbs saw a very good spell of rains which started after midnight on Monday and continued over the next few hours and in some cases until late afternoon as well. While most places received light…
Isolated Light Rains likely over parts of TN
Northeast Monsoon 2021-22 has been punctuated by extreme rainfall episodes since early November when Chennai & suburbs were hit by a an intense spell of rains that dumped more than 20 cms of rains over parts of the city & Northern suburbs. Subsequently we had more such short duration burst of extreme rainfall episodes, mostly…
Western Disturbance – Villain or a Hero??
A couple of seasons back the promo for the popular Tamil Reality Show, Big Boss Tamil raised a question நல்லவர் யார் கெட்டவர் யார்??. எல்லாமே நம்ம பார்க்கிற பார்வையில் இருக்கு, the answer, Kamal Hassan the host of the show, gave possibly is applicable to Western Disturbances as well during Northeast Monsoon. A week back an interplay of…