As Southwest Monsoon ebbs and flows at West Coast over here at the East Coast of Peninsular India Chennai sees its day time temperatures also oscillate. In the last 10 days or so Chennai AP has crossed 40°C more than a couple of times when drier conditions and stronger Westerlies have ruled the roost. Yesterday…
Slight Uptick in Rainfall over Western Ghats
Southwest Monsoon over Peninsular India has remained below par despite 4 weeks after making onset. One key reason in the monsoon dynamics is Offshore Trough that creates right conditions for active monsoon spell over the Western ghats. Unfortunately this year the off shore trough has not been developing often and at times when it has…
July provides some Hope for Monsoon – (COMK SWM Series 4)
The 4th post of the COMK Southwest Monsoon 2019 medium to long term inference. The earlier posts in this series are given below Monsoon 2019 Racing with Hand Brakes On – 20th June 2019 Monsoon 2019 Remains a Worry – 31st May 2019 Weak Monsoon dynamics remain a worry – 20th May 2019 It is…
Low pressure gives momentum to monsoon
As we enter into July Southwest monsoon has finally shown some Mojo to bring relief to large parts of the Indian subcontinent. for the past couple of days Konkan coast has remain under the active monsoon conditions. Last night saw fairly widespread rains over parts of South Gujarat, Vidharba regions. The low pressure over North…
COMK Cauvery Series 2019 – Alarm Bells Ring once again for Cauvery Basin
At COMK we take a lot of pride in the Cauvery series we put every year during the Southwest Monsoon period. Not only does it give us a sense of satisfaction when we try to interpret the inflow data to understand how the irrigation year is likely to shape up for the farmers of the…





