Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam

As Chennai gets ready to celebrate Vinayagar Chaturthi early morning drizzles will set the pattern for the city as remnant thunderstorms from the interiors cross coast providing some rains to the city as few places have recorded moderate rains as well around Chennai.  Ennore Port recorded 24 mm and Kanchipuram ISRO clocked 19 mm as…

Yesterday saw many interior pats of Peninsular India record good rains in particular around Northwest Tamil Nadu, South Interior Karnataka and adjoining parts of South Andhra Pradesh.  Parts of Bengaluru recorded a spell of moderate to heavy thunderstorms last evening creating localized water logging in a few areas in particular around South Bengaluru. Parts of…

The last few days have seen a lull in the thunderstorms over Tamil Nadu as briefly the West Coast picked up on the monsoon dynamics under the influence of the Low Pressure that moved across the Central Indian region.  This lull is indeed visible in the daily mean rainfall chart of Tamil Nadu & Pondy…

After nearly a fortnight of moderate to strong thunderstorm activity over many parts of Tamil Nadu the last couple of days have seen the rains slow down with the spatial spread of thunderstorms reducing by the day.  Yesterday was no different once again with some isolated activity during the evening over parts of North Tamil…

decent rains over Coastal Karnataka & Kerala as the well marked low in Central India makes its journey towards the North Arabian Sea. While this system has done its best to pull the monsoon trough to the South the next system getting ready in Bay of Bengal (currently as an Upper Air Cyclonic Circulation) will…