Over the past few days parts of interior Tamil Nadu saw some much needed rains through thunderstorms. Districts like Karur, Dharmapuri, Namakkal, Trichy that were in negative zone for the season benefitted from these rains. Even parts of Chennai got good rains last evening from scattered thunderstorm activity. Peninsular East Coast benefits when westerlies slow…
Weak Monsoon to enhance heat over Peninsular India
With 25 days left for the statistical end to SWM thoughts of weather bloggers tend to shift to Northeast Monsoon. In a way 5th September has almost become a date to look out for every year. The seasonal forecasts of ECMWF with September initial conditions comes out on 5th September. September is possibly the closest…
Telangana to see next round of widespread heavy rains
“When it Rains it Pours” is a very famous metaphor. People from Telangana may relate to this very well this year. Not only has Monsoon brought about episode after episode of flood associated distress to some parts of the state when ever it rains it just pours. In the 13 weeks since 1st June Telangana…
Brief revival of Monsoon likely along Peninsular West Coast
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….