IMD yesterday announced Southwest Monsoon has covered the entire country after touching down over the last few districts of Rajasthan like Barmer, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur etc. In the normal context Southwest Monsoon is expected to completely cover India by 8th of July. This year it has covered India nearly a week ahead of schedule despite going…
Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam
Monsoon dynamics continue to oscillate
Normally we see Monsoon dynamics swing like a pendulum between active and break phases with break phases known for the thunderstorms over the leeward areas of Tamil Nadu. Sometimes we also within the Monsoon dynamics go through intra seasonal oscillations. These oscillations tend to be created by not only tropical wave movement but also inter…
Monsoon showing signs of picking up over Peninsular India
Southwest Monsoon since the onset has been going through a stop start journey even though it touched down the sub continent shores before time. Like an express train not only forced to run behind a slow moving freight train ahead but also the presence of near continuous TSRs’ monsoon so far has been forced to…
Heavy Rains lash Chennai, bring relief to citizens
It is more than three weeks since Southwest Monsoon made onset over the Indian Mainland and nearly a week since IMD announced onset of the Monsoon over Chennai and surrounding North Tamil Nadu. Until yesterday the rains have been evading Chennai while most of Tamil Nadu saw active thunderstorms with some places seeing almost daily…
Fairly widespread thunderstorms likely over Tamil Nadu
Not often one gets to see Southwest Monsoon make onset over parts of Gujarat while parts of Tamil Nadu does not see onset yet. Southwest Monsoon this year has already touched down the shores of Saurashtra along with coastal Maharashtra & Gujarat while places like Chennai continues to be outside the onset conditions. 2019 saw…





