In a precursor to Northeast Monsoon 2018 many parts of Chennai recorded moderate to heavy thunderstorm activity. While some of the areas were lucky enough to catch a spell of thunderstorms yesterday afternoon the southern suburbs and places like Airport recorded an intense spell of thunderstorm during the wee hours of today. Just as estimated…
Thunderstorms likely over North Tamil Nadu
The spell of thunderstorms over Peninsular India continues to chug along with a very good day of rainfall activity seen over many parts of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and few parts of Tamil Nadu too. Yesterday also saw the return of Easterlies over coastal areas bringing some sharp spell of showers to a few places along…
Widespread thunderstorm activity likely over Interior Karnataka
While it could be ironical but a post on Thunderstorms in Karnataka just as the second fortnight of October starts pretty much sums up the situation with regard to the prospects of Northeast Monsoon Onset over the next few days. During first week of October “Pseudo Easterlies” brought about very good rainfall activity over most…
Interior thunderstorms to persist in Peninsular India
While the wait continues to the “Onset” of Northeast Monsoon thunderstorms in the interior areas of Peninsular India continues to persist with another active day seen yesterday. As mentioned in our post yesterday, with both tropical disturbances fading away in influence the wind pattern over South India has started showing signs of changing to Easterlies. …
Increased Thunderstorm activity over Interior TN
With the influence of both tropical disturbances fading away yesterday saw the return of thunderstorm activity over parts of Tamil Nadu. In particular few places in Tiruppur and Coimbatore district over West TN and places along the ghats on Theni and Kanyakumari district in South TN recorded moderate rains. Compared to yesterday the wind induced…





