All good things should come to an end goes an old saying. Peninsular India may not have seen the classic winter this year due to prevailing La Nina. But even the mild winter conditions have pretty much come to an end for the plains. Over the past few days night time temperatures have slowly started…
Summer conditions start over parts of Peninsular India
As schools kids every one of us would have read how the Earth’s tilted axis causes seasons. As different parts of Earth comes under the rays of Sun areas alternate between Summer and winter. But in addition to this there are factors like wind directions that play a role too. The Indian sub continent sees…
Dry Weather to continue over Peninsular India
Over the past couple of weeks Peninsular India including most of TN has been seeing winter. It is no surprise dry weather has taken a stranglehold. Late January to mid February is possibly the driest period over Peninsular India. The last rainfall episode around 1st February ended up relatively weaker than initial model estimates. The…
Winter conditions to return over Tamil Nadu
It goes without saying for tropical areas like the plains of Tamil Nadu winter season is an understatement. Proximity to the Equator in addition to oceans on all three sides of Peninsular India modulate our temperatures. It is also essential to point out during La Nina years the winter is pretty much non existent. The…
NEM 2024 officially checks out of Peninsular India
Yesterday IMD officially announced the cessation of Northeast Monsoon over Peninsular India. In a way NEM 2024 ends up as another classic La Nina influenced monsoon. As with La Nina when the pendulum swings either way the season ended up as excess. Since 1950 out of the 25 years when Monsoon has withdrawn on or…