Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam

As June comes to an end the first month of Southwest Monsoon 2017 has been completed.  Yes Tamil Nadu is indeed a rain shadow region during Southwest Monsoon with possibly only Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli and the Ghat areas of Coimbatore & Nilgiris possibly getting direct benefit out of the Indian Summer Monsoon.  But the interior places…

While Monsoon continues to be active over the northern latitudes of Peninsular India, rains have eased over the Southern parts which a much quieter day seen yesterday.  While Wednesday saw only the ghat areas of Nilgiris & Coimbatore record note worthy rains it was similar story on Thursday as well with Gudalur recording about 3…

After many days  Tamil Nadu saw one of the quietest day yesterday on the rain front with Southwest Monsoon slowing down in Kanyakumari & Nilgiris districts while interiors & Coastal ares pretty much saw no convective thunderstorms.  In the same context rains have slowed down in Coastal ares of Kerala & South Karnataka as well…

Southwest Monsoon continues to be active over the West Coast of India with widespread rains over the coastal areas of Kerala, Karnataka & Maharashtra.  Monday saw widespread rains at Nilgiris, Tirunelveli & Kanyakumari districts while many parts of Coimbatore also recorded good rains in Tamil Nadu.  Valaparai recorded the highest 24 hours rainfall of the…

After a lot of false starts Southwest Monsoon finally started to flex its muscles with active monsoon conditions prevailing over most parts of West Coast of India for the last couple of days.  For the 24 hours ending 8:30 AM, 25th June 2017 a lot of places in Maharashtra, South Gujarat, Coastal Karnataka got  very…