With Monsoon remaining active over West Coast most of Tamil Nadu has been seeing dry conditions prevail with muggy cloudy weather being the order of the day. On the one hand the cloudy skies have been keeping a check on temperatures so days remain fairly pleasant in places like Chennai with night time minimum temp…
It is not often one talks of Monsoon Surge when third week of September is about to come to an end. If one goes to Mumbai the common talk is after Ganpati Visarjan Monsoon also waves a good bye with a spell of thunderstorms ending the season for the Metropolis. But here we are on…
In a welcome relief after many close misses & disappointments not to forget the by now Iconic “Chennai Bermuda – Vada Poche” moments yesterday saw one of the best spell of thunderstorms of this monsoon season for Chennai with the IMD Observatory at Nungambakkam scoring its first half century of the year recording 57 mm…
Over the past couple of days thunderstorm activity over Tamil Nadu has been weak with Westerlies holding sway over things. Earlier this week the East West Shear Zone was running closer to Tamil Nadu latitude creating unstable atmospheric conditions over the state triggering thunderstorms in the process, with the East West Shear Zone now lying…
As many would know the traditional start of Southwest Monsoon Withdrawal from the Northwestern Parts of India for many years used to be 1st of September. Over the last decade or so the withdrawal has mostly started around Mid of September picking pace only towards end Sept or early October. Consequently after detailed assimilation of…
