On 14th September IMD announced the start of SWM withdrawal from the country as parts of Rajasthan saw reversal of winds. A couple of days later IMD announced further withdrawal from some more parts of Rajasthan and parts of Gujarat. Under the revised SWM withdrawal guidelines 17th September is the normal date for the first…
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Peninsular East Coast favorably placed for thunderstorms to continue
Over the past few days parts of interior Tamil Nadu saw some much needed rains through thunderstorms. Districts like Karur, Dharmapuri, Namakkal, Trichy that were in negative zone for the season benefitted from these rains. Even parts of Chennai got good rains last evening from scattered thunderstorm activity. Peninsular East Coast benefits when westerlies slow…
Weak Monsoon to enhance heat over Peninsular India
With 25 days left for the statistical end to SWM thoughts of weather bloggers tend to shift to Northeast Monsoon. In a way 5th September has almost become a date to look out for every year. The seasonal forecasts of ECMWF with September initial conditions comes out on 5th September. September is possibly the closest…
Brief revival of Monsoon likely along Peninsular West Coast
Over the past few days Peninsular West coast has been fairly in active in terms of rainfall. Since 18th August the daily rainfall chart for Kerala has been below normal. In our last post we talked about how the rainfall deficit for Kerala during August was at 27%. This has now increased to -37% as…
SWM to remain weak over Peninsular India
Every year monsoon is a different experience for weather watchers. Looking into the past to find answers for the future is a time and tested method for long term weather inferences. This is the reason why elsewhere in the Globe weather community does a lot of work to find the right analogs from past years….