With Cyclone Vardah effects fading its time to take stock of the Northeast Monsoon 2016 Journey So far. With just a fortnight left in 2016 and the Northeast Monsoon Season we are at pretty much the fag end of the rainfall cycle for this year. The daily rainfall chart for the year pretty much sums…
Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam
Cyclone Vardah less than 12 hours away from scoring Chennai Bulls Eye
The very severe cyclone Vardah now lies just about 150 kms to the east of Chennai coast as of early morning today at about 4:30 in the morning. As things stand the system is still packing a strong punch as a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm and going by the latest Dvorak estimates is now showing…
Very Severe Cyclone Vardah bears down towards Chennai landfall within 24 hours
Very Severe Cyclone Vardah now lies 300 kms to the East of Chennai and has been slowly making progress towards Chennai all the while continuing its organization and intensifying all the while. In what could turn out to be a very watchful night contrary to initial model estimates Very Severe Cyclone Vardah is not yet…
Cyclone Vardah heading for Chennai Coast, likely to landfall as a cyclone
As expected by our yesterday’s post in our blog Cyclone Vardah is now heading for the coast of Chennai. Very Severe Cyclone Vardah currently lying around 500 kms to the East of Chennai is making slow progress towards the coast of Chennai. After climbing up to a latitude of about 13.3 N the system has…
Cyclone Vardah set for Peak Intensity, Could Gradually weaken from tomorrow
Cyclone Vardah continues to churn along in Bay of Bengal about 1000 kms to the E/SE of Chennai. After making near stationary movement for nearly 36 hours Cyclone Vardah has now come into the open waters of Bay which is expected to become conducive for the development of the system. Also the presence of moderate…