As we get to the last week of December it is time to discuss the inevitable. When does Northeast Monsoon come to an end for this year? As we have mentioned often statistically the Northeast Monsoon season ends on 31st December. But many years the monsoon dynamics may continue into January. In some cases they…
Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam
Easterly wave brings final rainfall event of 2025
This year Northeast Monsoon has been a season of “Fits and Starts. Long dry spells interspersed with bouts of rainfall event that are of short duration. Unfavourable tropical waves during the first fortnight of November did not help either. The heaviest rains during NEM season is normally during LPA / Depression / Cyclone. But the…
Spell of cold weather ahead for Tamil Nadu
Northeast Monsoon this year has seen short burst of active monsoon interspersed with longer spell of dry weather. Large parts of the first fortnight of November saw dry weather conditions. 2nd fortnight slowly saw Monsoon get back on track with Cyclonic Storm Ditwah tilting the seasonal rainfall charts for many districts. This is visible in…
Stalled Deep Depression batters Chennai coast
24 hours is a long time in weather. Ask the people of Odisha when a stalled super cyclone created for 24 hours after making landfall in the year 1999. Ask the people of Chennai when a stalled Michaung brought the city to its knees 2 years back. 1st week of December is slowly turning out to be a period of extreme…
Southwest Bay LPA becomes depression off SE Coast of Sri Lanka
Not often one gets to see two disturbances spinning over Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas. In what is likely to be one of the first instances we now have a Depression over Southwest Bay and a cyclone over Strait of Malacca and adjoining areas. Cyclonic Storm Senyar is expected to drift East from today…