Northeast monsoon 2022 saw its first extreme rainfall episode as parts of Mayiladuthurai and Cuddalore districts recorded relentless rains on Friday night under the influence of the well marked low that stalled off the delta coast for more than 12 hours before deciding to nudge west. While Chidambaram recorded 31 cms for the 24 hours…
Northeast monsoon season has started to pick up pace once again under the influence of the disturbance off the coast of Sri Lanka. Satellite images confirm the LPA has become a well marked low now moving in a NW direction along the NE coast of Sri Lanka. From last evening fairly widespread rains have started…
As we get to closer to the mid point of the Northeast Monsoon season, the seasonal rainfall tally for Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry subdivision stands at 234 mm against the long period average of 235 mm. The early part of the season saw some of the interior districts like Erode, Namakkal etc score heavily on…
Unlike Southwest Monsoon, which is a large scale global weather phenomenon, Northeast Monsoon owes a lot of its rainfall episodes to the presence of disturbances over Bay of Bengal or Arabian Sea. It becomes essential not only for the presence of these disturbances during the season but also at a favorable location in order to…
Since the start of Northeast monsoon season if one were to look at all the IMD stations along the coast of Tamil Nadu between Chennai and Adirampattinam we will see the three delta stations namely Adirampattinam, Nagapattinam & Karaikal having the most negative anomaly indicating how NEM 2022 has been relatively weak over the core…
