So far the Summer of 2020 have been kind to most parts of Tamil Nadu with very few places touching the threshold 40ºC, if one were to ignore Madurai South observatory which many a times is out of sync with the neighbouring Madurai AP observatory, only Tiruchirappalli AP, Salem, Karur Paramathy & Erode have recorded…
The North Indian Ocean (Arabian Sea + Bay of Bengal) typically sees two cyclonic seasons in a calendar year. Pre Monsoon & Post Monsoon Season. The Pre Monsoon Season that happens during April & May typically also sees higher instances of Intensifying Cyclones. If one were to put it as a statistic nearly every second…
The last couple of days once again thunderstorms have started to improve along the Western Ghats all the way from North Karnataka to South Kerala. The role of wind convergence can be clearly seen if one were to overlay the thunderstorm charts over the wind charts. Additionally the coastal areas of South TN have been…
So far Chennai has been seeing a relatively sub par summer with temperatures staying near normal or in some days lower than normal. The persistence of Easterlies on a near continuous scale has meant we have had a comfortable summer so far. But as we often repeat the worst summer for Chennai is after the…
Over the last few years this blog has been in existence we have mentioned often how the transit of Sun is the driver of Monsoon seasons over Indian Sub Continent & Australia. We have also explained many a time the importance of Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), an active zone of convergence that follows the…
