Unlike Southwest Monsoon, which is a large scale global weather phenomenon, Northeast Monsoon owes a lot of its rainfall episodes to the presence of disturbances over Bay of Bengal or Arabian Sea. It becomes essential not only for the presence of these disturbances during the season but also at a favorable location in order to…
Since the start of Northeast monsoon season if one were to look at all the IMD stations along the coast of Tamil Nadu between Chennai and Adirampattinam we will see the three delta stations namely Adirampattinam, Nagapattinam & Karaikal having the most negative anomaly indicating how NEM 2022 has been relatively weak over the core…
After battering the capital city of Chennai and surrounding areas in north coastal Tamil Nadu in a much needed relief the rains slowed down from last evening with mostly light to at times moderate rains seen around the Greater Chennai UA during the night. To give a perspective by 7 AM on 1st November the…
Better late than never goes a famous saying. The northeast monsoon may have made onset 9 days behind schedule, an onset that could have been considered as weak during most years, but yesterday at least over parts of north coastal Tamil Nadu brought in rains at many places. Even though it was not as widespread…
