Yesterday much to the relief of many rains started slowing down along the West Coast & in the Ghats. In a much needed development this would allow the disaster management teams to focus on relief & rescue operations in places that have been seeing floods & landslides with many reported in the High Ranges of…
One of the most common debates that happen among weather bloggers is whether LPA or Cyclone gives more rains, there are enough evidences to support both sides of the arguments. Yesterday turned out to be another case of additional support for those who argue for LPAs’. A weak LPA under right conditions can dump a…
Since the start of the statistical Northeast Monsoon season on 1st of October yesterday was only the second instance of the daily realized rainfall over Tamil Nadu & Pondicherry falling lower than the daily average rainfall for second straight day in a row. On 7th & 8th of October the realized rainfall was lower than…
With the first fortnight of October coming to an end the seasonal Northeast Monsoon tally is now at 123.9 mm against the Long Period Average of 68.2 mm. Tenkasi, Virudhunagar & Thoothukudi are the only districts currently showing negative anomaly, while Virudhunagar at -30% & Thoothukudi at -63% are indeed in deficit Tenkasi at -4%…
From Tuesday thunderstorms over Tamil Nadu slowly reduced with yesterday seeing most of the action sticking to the North Tamil Nadu areas with parts of Villuppuram, Pondicherry, Chengalpattu, Kanchipuram districts seeing bulk of the rains. Tiruvallur district was one of the biggest beneficiaries of yesterday’s thunderstorms, the IMD AWS at Tirur KVK roughly 5 kms…
