Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam

Conditions were very good for Chennai to receive some rains yesterday and today morning.  Despite most models are predicting and some strong hope from us and other weather blogs as well except for a few isolated rains last morning Chennai did not receive any decent spell of rain.   Theoretically these two days were the…

In yesterday’s post we had talked of Chennai’s lucky break for next spell of rains, it appears Chennai is indeed going to get the throw of dice from Bay of Bengal for the next spell of rains. We had hoped the Low Pressure trough prevailing near Andaman to extend in a NW direction for better…

As expected a low pressure trough exists near Andaman Islands.  Will this develop into an organized disturbance, looks doubtful though with nature it is never impossible. But it would certainly push Easterlies strongly into Peninsular India.  The low pressure trough is expected to move in a Westward direction towards Sri Lanka.  Thanks to ITCZ  being…

As explained yesterday there is a mild Low Pressure Area that is showing signs of development in the Arabian Sea.  Unfortunately for Chennai it is at a fairly low latitude to provide any major advantage for North TN,  It is expected to continue in a Westerly direction towards Africa over the next few days.  Unlikely…

After a fairly long break, Bay finally brings back life to Northeast Monsoon with some decent spells of rain to Chennai and surrounding areas since yesterday.  Crucially it has provided some extremely heavy rains to South Andhra Pradesh which has come as a boon which was reeling under a huge deficit for the year. North…