After a few days of fairly active thunderstorm activity over the leeward areas of Tamil Nadu yesterday saw a relatively quiet evening with extremely isolated thunderstorms seen over parts of Chennai & suburbs while rest of the state also did not see much activity. The strengthening Westerlies to an extent meant thunderstorm possibilities reduced though…
After a few days of good action over the leeward side of Tamil Nadu through Veppa Salanam thunderstorms the action now shifts back to the West Coast for what is likely to be a defining spell of rains for most parts of Kerala which has seen sub par Southwest Monsoon so far. The Monsoon low…
Yesterday saw moderate rains at many places of North Tamil Nadu including Chennai & Suburbs with parts of Tiruvannamalai district seeing fairly intense spell of rains at times. In North Chennai & Suburbs the IMD rain guages at Villivakkam, Puzhal recorded more than 3 cms of rains from the early evening spell while as the…
Midnight Thunderstorms once again checked in around Chennai & suburbs last night as many parts of the city recorded moderate to heavy spell of rains. The IMD ARG at Puzhal recorded 61 mm while the one at Villivakkam recorded 35.5 mm. To the Southwest of Chennai, Kanchipuram AWS recorded 74.5 mm rains while dead west…
For the past few years thanks to Southwest Monsoon seeing fairly robust seasonal rainfall numbers, in particular over Peninsular India Cauvery basin dams were mostly seeing good times with almost all the dams including Mettur overflowing more than one occasion in the same season. While this year models were early on indicating a possibly weak…
