Over the past few days Peninsular West coast has been fairly in active in terms of rainfall. Since 18th August the daily rainfall chart for Kerala has been below normal. In our last post we talked about how the rainfall deficit for Kerala during August was at 27%. This has now increased to -37% as…
SWM to remain weak over Peninsular India
Every year monsoon is a different experience for weather watchers. Looking into the past to find answers for the future is a time and tested method for long term weather inferences. This is the reason why elsewhere in the Globe weather community does a lot of work to find the right analogs from past years….
MISO to favour Central India once again
On behalf of all the weather bloggers at COMK we wish our readers a Happy Independence Day. Southwest Monsoon season this year has been fairly eventful for core Monsoon Zone in Central India. Overall in terms of dynamics it is fair to say Monsoon Intra-seasonal Oscillation (MISO) has skewed towards Central India. The weekly progression…
Strengthening westerlies to reduce thunderstorms over leeward TN
As we often mention monsoon dynamics is an oscillating pendulum. Very rarely one can see it an equilibrium state. Depending on atmospheric support the movement of pendulum may be fast or slow. When monsoon winds weaken from the west along with break in monsoon thunderstorms improve over leeward plains of TN. When strengthening westerly winds…
Window of thunderstorms for North Coastal TN
Over the past few days as Southwest Monsoon slowed a window of thunderstorms opened for the leeward plains of TN. Widespread thunderstorms pushed the seasonal rainfall performance for TN & PDC from -11% to 3%. The last 5 days have contributed nearly 30 mm to the seasonal rainfall tally over TN & PDC. But in…