It is common knowledge the Northeast Monsoon season coincides with the peak cyclone season over North Indian Ocean Basin. The period April / May is the pre monsoon cyclone season and the October – December period is the post monsoon cyclone season. The cyclone season coinciding with the rainfall season is possibly one of the…
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Bay gets ready for another complex weather event
This year’s Northeast Monsoon could head down the books as one of the most complex years for weather observers. Pretty much every event of a reasonably strong magnitude has come with complex interactions and interplay between various factors making it very tough to give a descent inference a few days in advance. One common thread…
All set for the best fortnight of NEM2023
As we head to closer towards the last week of November the overall feeling one gets about this year’s Northeast Monsoon is a sense of “so near yet so far”, particularly to the places in North Coastal TN and North Interior TN where the rains have been extremely sub par. While there is no doubt…
Boss of Bays continues to spin favorably for Northeast Monsoon
ஐயா என் பேரு மாணிக்கம், எனக்கு இன்னொரு பேரு இருக்கு The above dialogue from the movie Baasha by Rajnikanth is one of his most famous dialogues. Similarly for most the acronym BOB would mean Bay of Bengal. But for the weather bloggers of Chennai it is Boss of Bays. Despite being a much smaller basin compared to…
All set for complex bay dynamics once again as next LPA gets ready
On behalf of all of us we wish our readers and well wishers a Happy and Safe Deepavali North Indian Ocean has always been a complex basin for Global weather models. We have consistently seen weather models under estimating forecasts of cyclones over the Arabian Sea with 2023 also adding Biparjoy and Tej adding to…