Cyclone Asani once again has confirmed the age old adage among the Weather Bloggers of Chennai “Bay of Bengal is a Model Graveyard”. While models continue to churn at times divergent solutions which many a times complicates inferences, particularly by amateur weather enthusiasts, the Bay has a mind of its own and churns around Cyclones…
Yesterday the expected Pre Monsoon Disturbance started its life cycle as a Low Pressure Area near Andaman Islands. Under favorable conditions in the form of strong Cross Equatorial Westerlies and a counter circulating twin across the Equator it has picked up in intensity to become a Well Marked Low. Over the next 24 hours or…
For weather watchers across the globe one of the events that sets butterflies in the stomach is the arrival of Southwest Monsoon over the Indian Sub Continent. But just like Tamil Proverb goes, “யானை வரும் பின்னே மணி ஓசை வரும் முன்னே” events not only indicate the progress of sequence of Southwest Monsoon onset but also create…
As April gave way to May Tamil Nadu which had been relatively better off avoiding the 42 / 43°C which many parts of AP & TS states were seeing for the past one week or so Vellore became the first IMD observatory in the state to cross 42 degrees this summer recording 42.2°C yesterday. Karur…
For the past couple of days large swathes of the Indian Sub Continent has been reeling under heat wave conditions as many places in Central and North India started seeing day time maximum temperatures exceeed 44 / 45°C. Places like Brahmapuri in Vidharba, Rajgarh & Jhansi in Madhya Pradesh has recorded more than 45°C consecutively…
