Since the start of the second week of September rains, both over the core monsoon areas and thunderstorms over the leeward areas, have slowed down over most of Tamil Nadu. But despite this slow down during what is effectively the rainiest period during the Southwest Monsoon season this year has been abnormally wet with 56%…
The last few days have seen a drastic reduction in thunderstorms over most of Tamil Nadu with rains sticking to the Ghats of Nilgiris & Coimbatore districts. Even the Ghats of Kanyakumari has bee mostly out of sync with rains except for one or two days. The Southwest Monsoon seasonal tally for TN & PDC…
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…
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…
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…
