Fits and Starts periods of activity mixed with periods when nothing happens It is an understatement to say this year’s Northeast Monsoon is happening in fits and starts that is reflecting in an overall seasonal performance that stands at a deficit of 43% for the first month of the season. The statistical season coincided with…
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NEM 2023 to build its season brick by brick
Brick by Brick is a phrase often used when a certain thing is done steadily and in a step by step manner. Weather dynamics also works often in a similar manner considering the complex nature of how a lot of factors interact with each other and events that happen many hundreds of kilometers away influence…
Conditions gradually turning favorable for Northeast Monsoon
IMD announced the arrival of Northeast Monsoon over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal, and Kerala this year on 21st October. A couple of days before when IMD made the precursor to Northeast Monsoon onset they had indicated the early days of NEM was expected to be weak. In the subsequent days since the onset announcement was…
While SWM exits country, all eyes on Northeast Monsoon onset.
IMD yesterday announced the withdrawal of Southwest Monsoon from the entire country 4 days delayed compared to the normal withdrawal date of October 15th. Over the past decade if one were to see the withdrawal dates 6 out of 10 years the withdrawal has been completed only after 20th October ironically 2019 the year that…
SWM ready to checkout. But Northeast Monsoon not yet ready to check in
Relay a : a supply (as of horses) arranged beforehand for successive reliefb : a number of persons who relieve others in some work The traditional date for Southwest Monsoon to complete its withdrawal over the Indian Sub-Continent is 15th of October while the traditional onset date for Northeast Monsoon is 18th of October with…