Yesterday while presenting the state budget the Finance Minister of Tamil Nadu announced the setting up of a dedicated weather monitoring & forecasting infrastructure for Tamil Nadu with investments to be made on improving the AWS / ARG Network, additional Radar Locations & bringing in super computing to develop better weather forecasts. In what is…
A couple of weeks back a lot of buzz happened around a rare LPA in Bay of Bengal during the month of March. While going strictly by books what was called as a moderate La Nina episode is in effect behaving like a fairly strong La Nina episode with another LPA now forming over the…
Beware the ides of March JULIUS CAESAR ACT 1, SCENE 2, 15–19 In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, a Soothsayer warns the Roman emperor about Ides of March, 15th day of March, to be aware of a possible threat to his life. In the context of weather ides of March is close to…
The last couple of days saw parts of South Tamil Nadu record good rains, particularly Thoothukudi district, under the influence of the remnant moisture from the Deep Depression which pushed in a SW direction from off the coast near Delta Districts towards South Tamil Nadu as an UAC. Thoothukudi Port recorded 10 cms for 24…
anticlimax : the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea (Merriam Webster Dictionary) Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Madi, Cyclonic Storm Kyant, Cyclonic Storm Nilam etc will be some of the names that immediately spring in the minds of Chennai Weather bloggers when ever the phrase Anticlimax is…
