Sunday night and the early hours of Monday saw fairly widespread thunderstorms around Chennai and suburbs with some very intense groundstrikes happening over parts of the city. Subsequently we have seen thunderstorm activity persist over the KTCC region with city areas getting an intense spell during the early morning hours of Wednesday. With Monsoon dynamics…
The last time the IMD observatory at Chennai Nungambakkam crossed 1 cms was for 24 hours ending 8:30 AM on July 17th ’22. In this intervening period the IMD observatory at Chennai Airport though did record 19 mm and 31 mm on 17th & 18th August ’22, ironically the 17th August spell was nearly a…
It is often remarked as far as weather goes you are never in isolation. Events that happene many thousands of kms away tend to influence weather at your place. Southwest Monsoon obviously is a classic example of how events from afar can trigger large scale weather phenomenons. Similarly even a mesoscale event like convective thunderstorms…
Happy Independence Day to All The past few years have seen a lot of weather bloggers come into the limelight due to their efforts in trying to be the bridge between Official Weather Forecasts and Common Public. Weather being a complex subject it is not always possible to see converging forecasts between amateur weather enthusiasts…
As we get into the second half of the Southwest Monsoon season slowly but steadily the soil saturation across the Indian sub continent starts to increase more and more, particularly the river basins, under the influence of the regular rains that has happened since the onset of monsoon. To give a perspective the water run…
