The last week’s rainfall episode triggered a flooding event across many parts of Peninsular India which was not seen in many decades. Rivers like Palar saw inflows cross 1.5 lakh cusecs which has possibly never happened in living memory for most people living on its bank. Similarly Then Pennai saw nearly 75000 cusecs which once…
Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam
Coastal TN needs to keep a tab on South Bay
Weather events many a times are decided by fine margins particularly over tropical areas like the Indian Sub Continent and while using Global Models were grid resolutions are lower. The last few days once again reiterate this, while many were upset about the “Unnecessary Hypes about heavy rains and Red Alerts for Chennai on Thursday”…
Chennai Rains – A Year of Bounty
It is often remarked the IMD classification of Southwest Monsoon Season & Northeast Monsoon Season has been created with the objective of making record keeping less cumbersome though the actual onset & withdrawals of Monsoons do not fall within the Gregorian Calendar dates as envisaged by humans. It is difficult to bind nature to man…
Widespread Heavy Rains likely over North TN & South AP
The events happening over the last 24 hours or so once again confirms how despite all the technological advances that have happened to Global Weather Models North Indian Ocean remains a grave yard for these models. Is it because of reduced observations or improper parameters only a detailed study could throw light on that. On…
Increase in Rains expected for Coastal TN from later today evening
The popular proverb Man Proposes God Disposes becomes Models Propose Bay Disposes for Weather Bloggers. Weather models struggling even in the short term is nothing new especially with weak to moderate intensity disturbances which tend to have their own dynamics at a much smaller scale than getting involved with larger scale factors like Indo China…





