While weather is a perfect example of the butterfly effect in chaos theory one can also say the larger scale dynamics works in patterns which largely prevail the same under similar conditions. This is the basis of how impacts of global factors like ENSO, Indian Ocean Dipole or for that matter even global oscillations behave…
Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam
Southwest Monsoon gets ready for final flourish
In a fascinating journey of changing dyanmics and contrasting impact the Southwest Monsoon season of 2022 has decided to trigger a final flourish in the form of strengthening monsoon dynamics on the back of a developing circulation in Central Bay that is expected to become a LPA in the next 48 hours or so. For…
Increased Veppasalanam Rains likely over NW interior TN
Most of last week saw a precursor to Northeast Monsoon show up over peninsular India with Easterlies running the show across the region instead of the seasonal westerlies that is the halmark of Southwest Monsoon. The temporary Easterlies under the influence of the circulation in South Bay area though has now given way to the…
Temporary reduction in thunderstorms over Peninsular India
Any rainfall spell be it monsoon or thunderstorms need to provide for breaks in between in order to maintain the balance. The last few days saw pretty much a very active spell of thunderstorms over large parts of Peninsular India with many places in South interior Karnataka like Ramanagara, Bengaluru witnessing localized flooding. Similarly many…
Widespread thunderstorms likely over West Interior TN
Southwest Monsoon 2022 without doubts has been very good for most of Tamil Nadu with almost all the districts seeing above normal rains so far. As a matter of fact districts like Theni has recorded nearly 3 times the average rains with 15 districts overall recording twice the average rains in the state as of…





