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…
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…
As we get closer to September we get to a stage where one starts to think of the window for Southwest Monsoon to start its withdrawal. Just like how the onset of monsoon is spread out over a few weeks the withdrawal is also spread over weeks with Northwest India the last point for monsoon…
Sunday night and the early hours of Monday saw fairly widespread thunderstorms around Chennai and suburbs with some very intense groundstrikes happening over parts of the city. Subsequently we have seen thunderstorm activity persist over the KTCC region with city areas getting an intense spell during the early morning hours of Wednesday. With Monsoon dynamics…
The last time the IMD observatory at Chennai Nungambakkam crossed 1 cms was for 24 hours ending 8:30 AM on July 17th ’22. In this intervening period the IMD observatory at Chennai Airport though did record 19 mm and 31 mm on 17th & 18th August ’22, ironically the 17th August spell was nearly a…
