Ever since the official NEM 2018 season, as followed by IMD, began on October 1st it has been a pretty much erratic trend of rainfall pattern for Tamil Nadu. What was a very good few days of rains during the first week of October influenced by Pseudo Easterlies was followed by a dry spell for…
As models estimated the Weak Easterly wave has started to provide rains to coastal areas since last night. Many places to the south of Cuddalore recorded light to moderate rains last night. Chidambaram AWS recorded nearly 6 cms of rains which continued right through the night. Parts of Thanjavur district also recorded moderate rains with…
The Dry conditions across Tamil Nadu that has been persisting for the past couple of days is expected to continue for another day or two as overall suppressed atmospheric conditions prevail over Peninsular India. As we have been mentioning often this Northeast Monsoon Season this year’s monsoon has been performing in Fits & Starts even…
Northeast Monsoon has gone into a suppressed phase over Tamil Nadu as estimated by most models. Yesterday most of Tamil Nadu was dry with no noticeable rainfall activity seen. Today morning’s satellite image shows a clean slate with not even the convection typically seen along the Coastal areas when Easterlies hold forte. Not only most…
After a flurry of heavy rains across many parts of Tamil Nadu things have slowed down drastically since last evening. The satellite image over Peninsular India also shows clear skies across the region with not much rainfall activity seen during the morning hours, typically the time associated with Northeast Monsoon period. This lull in rainfall…
