Slowly but surely Pre Monsoon Thunderstorms are picking up pace over Peninsular India. Wednesday saw parts of Virudhnagar & Tenkasi district getting very good rains, along the Eastern Slopes of the Ghats, as wind induced instabililty provided perfect conditions for convective thunderstorms to thrive after a clear sky during the first half of the day….
Yesterday saw some intense thunderstorms over parts of Tiruchirappalli dt. Today places around Madurai & Dindigul, Tiruppur dts may see good Veppasalanam Rains. Starting from today though storms will gradually push back towards West Coast as Easterlies strengthen
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…
