After a few days of break parts of Chennai woke up to light rains over many parts of the city. Places slightly North of Chennai and northern suburbs of Chennai recorded moderate rains in a few places. Ennore Port recorded 6 mm at the time of making the post as isolated thunderstorms slowly make their…
Though it NEM 2019 may not be active over Chennai & suburbs a lot of action is happening around the Indian Ocean. A combination of influence from planetary waves & favorable tropical conditions mean the Equatorial Indian Ocean on either side is teeming with activity. Add one of the strongest Positive IOD episodes in recent…
After a few days Chennai and most of Tamil Nadu wakes up to relatively dry conditions as school children enjoy a Bonus holiday that was declared last evening. As the famous song in the movie Guna went said அது என்னவோ தெரியல என்ன மாயமோ தெரியல most often the rains in Chennai stop as though powered by…
Northeast Monsoon saw one of its best days of the season yesterday as perfect conditions created by Easterlies and enhanced by the presence of MJO over the Indian Ocean brought widespread rains across almost all of Tamil Nadu with many places recording heavy rains. Chennai city has been getting spells of rains right through since…
Many a time people wonder what is the influence of MJO over Northeast Monsoon. The easiest example to relate about the influence of MJO over Northeast Monsoon is to compare the years 2015 & 2016. The former saw a favorable MJO circuit over Indian Ocean during NEM time while the latter saw the first visit…
