Cape Town in South Africa was possibly one of the earliest instances of a major metropolis to get associated with Day Zero. Around late 2017 the first reference to kickstarting a Day Zero plan started to be discussed as a series of years with poor rainfall from 2015 led to a situation which led to…
Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam
Summer to crank up the heat over Peninsular India
On the back of a fading El Nino, North and South India have been seeing a contrasting pattern of weather. A late season spurt in westerly troughs have not only meant good spells of rains on a regular basis for many parts of North and Central India but also a delay in conditions turning from…
Dipping Westerly trough to influence weather over Peninsular India
Indian Sub Continent is unique in many ways with the mighty Himalayas on one side and ocean bodies on three side surrounding Peninsular India. North India in a way not only has seen empires from Central Asia trying to make inroads but time to time Sub-tropical weather events also make its presence through Mid Latitude…
Summer starts to tighten grip over most of Tamil Nadu
“Beware the Ides of March” Words uttered by a soothsayer in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar The Ides of March may have been uttered to warn Julius Caesar in the play written by William Shakespeare, but the weather blogging community possibly knows it is equally applicable as far as summer goes for Tamil Nadu. More often…
Appreciable increase in temperatures likely over Interior Peninsular India
Winter 2024 was abnormally warm over Southern Peninsular India. The IMD monthly summary indicated during the month of January the max temperatures over the region was about 0.67°C above normal which was the fourth highest average maximum temperature during January since 1901. During February the max temperature over Southern Peninsular India was 0.97°C warmer than…