Over the past few years instances of extreme rainfall episodes are becoming pronounced, 2015 Chennai Floods, 2018 Floods over Kerala & Karnataka, 2020 Cuddalore Floods are a few examples of some of these extreme rainfall episodes when rains meant for months are falling in a mere days. The challenge before the Weather Community is not…
As remarked many a times, the fortunes of the West & East Coast of Peninsular India swings like a pendulum during the Monsoon season as active & suppressed phases of rainfall work inversely for each other. In a strange quirk of fate we have to also accept both the coasts can see similar conditions only…
As slowly things look up to Monsoon 2021 getting back on track after nearly 2 weeks of subdued performance over the west coast it is also time to look at a gradual reduction in the thunderstorm activity over Peninsular India, particularly over the leeward places of Andhra Pradesh, South Interior Karnataka & Tamil Nadu. But…
The last few days have seen Break in Monsoon Thunderstorms rock over most parts of Tamil Nadu with yesterday once again seeing many places in the state recording 7 to 10 cms in the state with districts of Namakkal, Villuppuram, Perambalur, Trichy, Karur seeing very intense thunderstorms that moved slowly dumping rains during the process….
Tamil Nadu saw an extremely stormy evening yesterday as widespread thunderstorms lashed the interior areas of the state with many places seeing rainfall accumulations around 7 to 10 cms. Places in Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri dt which survives primarily on thunderstorms enjoyed a very good day of rains with Palacode recording 94 mm for 24 hours ending…
