As break in monsoon conditions strengthened right on cue yesterday thunderstorms over Tamil Nadu increased. After what was a fairly clear sky day over large parts of Peninsular India, places in South TN initially started seeing thunderstorms develop at many places towards the evening bringing some moderate to at times heavy spells over places like […]
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Break in Monsoon as a phenomenon is being discussed about for nearly 140 years now. Henry Willaims Blanford, the first official meteorologist of India in the year 1886 had identified these large intra seasonal oscillations as ‘duringthe height of rains’ and ‘intervals of drought’. While the early days of these oscillations were identified through surface […]
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Last couple of days have been dull days as far as thunderstorms go over Tamil Nadu, while it was expected Thursday could have been a dull day on account of the fairly widespread thunderstorm activity that happened on Wednesday the absence of any large scale factors meant yesterday was fairly quiet with not much activity […]
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While tracking weather many a times a very important factor that is ignored by weather bloggers is Climatology. On the one hand looking to track unseasonal rains through thunderstorms bring forth a certain pleasure when it materializes one should never forget Climatology exists for a reason. If one were to look at the long term […]
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The events over the last few days once again has proved Bay of Bengal is indeed the Boss of Bays even as far as Southwest Monsoon goes even though for most people it is Arabian Sea that takes all the TRP. While a few may argue it is the offshore trough that is the trigger […]
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