கார்த்திகை மாதம் போனால் கடும் மழை இல்லையே wrote Vairamuthu for the film Duet 15 years back. While we have seen Northeast Monsoon extend at times well into January more often than not heavy rain episodes start to fade away from mid December, in particular for North TN unless there are supporting synoptic conditions.But at times Nature…
Not often interior parts of Tamil Nadu especially places in West Interior TN gets good rains without any synoptic support during the fag end of Northeast Monsoon. Not only did some of the hill stations get moderate rains many places in Coimbatore, Tiruppur district got moderate rains last evening as the remnant rains from coastal…
In what could be the parting spell of NEM2019 the next couple of days could give an opportunity for some of those places to reduce the deficit as Easterlies are seen strengthening up to North Tamil Nadu latitude. It appears as though Nature may want to reduce the deficit as much as possible before taking…
There’s an old saying in Tamil கார்த்திகைக்கு மிஞ்சின மழையும் இல்லை. கர்ணனுக்கு மிஞ்சின கொடையும் இல்லை which pretty much sums up the peak Northeast Monsoon time for Tamil Nadu. While South TN and parts of delta will continue to see favorable conditions for rains North TN slowly gets into winter mode as we get into the second…
Life Cycle is a phrase which we normally associate with living things, sometimes we associate it with products too in the corporate world too. Similarly Monsoons also go through life cycle with clear onset, peak & retreat phases. In the case of Southwest Monsoon these phases are well defined by IMD and also easy to…
