For the 3rd time in the last four days parts of Chennai & Suburbs recorded light to moderate rains. While Chennai Nungambakkam is still to record any meaningful spell of rains so far in so many months the Airport IMD observatory at Meenambakkam has accumulated 5 cm of rains so far. Its only a matter…
Aided by the Low Pressure that prevailed over North Bay Southwest Monsoon finally made some progress covering large parts of Peninsular India. Though running well behind schedule IMD confirmed the onset of Southwest Monsoon was complete over Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh & large parts of Telangana. It remains to be seen though if current…
There is an Old Saying “முதல் கோணல் முற்றிலும் கோணல்”, Monsoon 2019 started on a weak wicket with a delayed onset pretty much setting the trend so far. It is indeed not a good reading to see core Southwest Monsoon regions like Kerala, Coastal Karnataka, Konkan reeling under very high deficits with the 3rd week of…
During the last couple of weeks Chennai has been seeing only hot hot weather. Nungambakkam has been recording above 40 degree Celsius since 8th June except for one day similar has been the case with Meenambakkam as well. With cyclone Vayu going through a long life cycle the moisture over Peninsular India reduced drastically playing…
Since the Onset of Southwest Monsoon over Kerala on 8th June, Chennai Nungambakkam has seen the maximum temperature cross 40°C on six days while 3 of those days it crossed 41°C. During the same period the IMD observatory Meenambakkam crossed 41°C on six occasions. The satellite image not only shows about the poor monsoon conditions…
