Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam

It is more than three weeks since Southwest Monsoon started over the Indian Sub Continent but the storage levels over most dams & reservoirs of Tamil Nadu & the Cauvery Basin continue to be grim with no appreciable progress so far. More on that a little later as we quickly note the progress of Southwest…

Yesterday saw thunderstorms happen in Tamil Nadu at a few places though overall the spread of the thunderstorms was much lesser compared to the previous days.  Parts of South Tamil Nadu got some rains around Madurai, Sivagangai and Pudukottai districts with Devakottai recording about 29 mm rains.  In a case of sea breeze triggered localized…

After a fairly widespread day of rains on Monday though yesterday saw some good thunderstorms develop over Salem, Villupuram & Cuddalore districts overall a much more quieter day was seen over Tamil Nadu.  After Monday’s good rains over North Tamil Nadu the overall rainfall for the Monsoon season now is just 0.5 mm short of…

In what could be called the best day of rains for the year 2017 in North Tamil Nadu rains lashed many places of the state along the East Coast.  The rainfall numbers possibly could be mistaken for an onset day of Northeast Monsoon rather than Southwest Monsoon time considering how wide spread the rains have…

Southwest Monsoon continues to make progress in bits and pieces over India with the monsoon currently going through another stall process for the last few days.  With no progress expected in the next two or three days we are possibly going to see some parts of Central India and West India witness monsoon onset almost…