During the Southwest Monsoon on most occasions rains swing like a pendulum. When the West coast and the Ghats are active places in the East coast like North TN remain quiet. When monsoon goes through a break period it is the leeward plains that get active while West coast remains quiet. At times though when…
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Scattered thunderstorms likely over North Tamil Nadu
Southwest Monsoon this season has not been a classical season so far. Peninsular India has been seeing the monsoon pendulum wildly. On the other side of spectrum parts of Central India has been seeing active monsoon conditions for weeks together. The rains over the leeward plains of Tamil Nadu has also been erratic. Even when…
Afternoons to remain hot over the plains of Tamil Nadu
Southwest Monsoon this year has been very moody over Peninsular India. This can be seen quiet clearly through the daily rainfall chart for Kerala since the start of Monsoon season on 1st June. Overall the seasonal performance stands at -1% with 11 days seeing above average rains. In all this we have seen pretty much…
Monsoon Surge to favour North Konkan and Central India
Southwest Monsoon this year started with a bang even before the traditional onset date over Kerala. Late May saw a Monsoon surge that brought one of the earliest monsoon onsets in recent years. Subsequently as we came to the traditional onset window monsoon stalled for nearly two weeks. Between 26th May and 15th June the…
Monsoon 2025 to revive after early season pause
Intra-seasonal monsoon oscillation is an integral part of SWM every year. The onset and withdrawal of Monsoon is a much discussed phenomenon. Onset and withdrawal has ben religiously monitored and documents for the last many decades. A lesser discussed characteristic is the Intra-seasonal oscillation. In other words active and break events of Monsoon. This paper…