Bringing much cheer Northeast Monsoon showed signs of stuttering to life once again with many places along the coast of Tamil Nadu and South AP recording light to moderate rains from yesterday evening. While there remains inherent doubts on how active this phase of Northeast Monsoon will be it makes a lot of sense to…
Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam
Rains to start in Coastal TN from today evening
NEM 2018 for Tamil Nadu continues to remain an enigma creating a roller coaster of an emotion for not only weather enthusiasts but also common people. If one were to look at the numbers for the sub division of TN & Pondy we have to get more than 50% excess rains in the remaining days…
All eyes on Easterly Wave – Cheer for Chennai??
As the seasonal deficit for Chennai Nungambakkam inched close to 50% for NEM2018 all eyes are on the Expected Easterly wave to bring some cheer to the citizens of the metropolis. The number looks alarming when one looks at the annual numbers for Chennai Nungambakkam, more than 60 cms is needed in the balance 30…
Erratic Trend continues for NEM 2018
Ever since the official NEM 2018 season, as followed by IMD, began on October 1st it has been a pretty much erratic trend of rainfall pattern for Tamil Nadu. What was a very good few days of rains during the first week of October influenced by Pseudo Easterlies was followed by a dry spell for…
Easterly Wave to benefit Interior Tamil Nadu
As models estimated the Weak Easterly wave has started to provide rains to coastal areas since last night. Many places to the south of Cuddalore recorded light to moderate rains last night. Chidambaram AWS recorded nearly 6 cms of rains which continued right through the night. Parts of Thanjavur district also recorded moderate rains with…





