With roughly 3 weeks left for the Statistical Southwest Monsoon season to end the current storage of Mettur continues to remain a worry. For the past couple of years Mettur has seen the dam shutters open for Kuruvai Crop in the Delta districts on the traditional date of June 12th. To give a perspective prior…
Last couple of days have seen day time temperatures inch up slowly as dry atmospheric conditions & the consequent absence of thunderstorms meant afternoons were mostly hot across the state. While few places around Salem got some rains, with the city area getting a rather surprisingly heavy 2 cms leeward areas of Tamil Nadu remained…
Yesterday saw a very quiet day for Tamil Nadu with very little thunderstorm activity seen across the plains of the state except for some isolated places closer to the Eastern Ghats. Similar conditions are likely to persist for the next few days as Peninsular India may be seeing subdued rains even along the south west…
Yesterday once again showed the foolproof period for Chennai as far as thunderstorms go is just as the LPA deepens and gets ready to move inland from the Bay. While day before yesterday saw moderate to heavy rains over many places in Tamil Nadu yesterday saw action pretty much confined to Chennai & surrounding districts,…
Models Propose & Nature Disposes is a phrase regular weather watchers around Chennai can relate very well. For the past few days Chennai & surrounding areas received moderate to heavy rains on paper, as estimated by models, but yesterday when most models expected a much quieter day southern suburbs of Chennai & adjoining areas of…
