The North Indian Ocean cyclone season is typically split as two sub seasons by Southwest Monsoon. Pre Monsoon season coincides with the summer months. Post Monsoon season coincides with Northeast Monsoon season. Often these cyclones also play a role in reversing the seasonal winds between Westerlies and Easterlies. Over the past 24 to 48 hours…
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Agni Natchathiram to start under the cloud of Amritavarshini
As we get to the early days of May pretty much every year we start hearing Agni Natchathiram take center stage in Tamil News media. This is a period of about 3 weeks bringing supposedly peak heat to Tamil Nadu. Over the years many attempts have been made to explain how peak summer does not…
Fire & Ice Show over Peninsular India
After a lull things are shaping up for an active phase of pre monsoon thunderstorms over Peninsular India. During the early days of April we had talked about a spell of sub par summer thunderstorms over Peninsular India. A combination of factors including unfavourable tropical wave influence created this suppressive phase over Indian sub continent….
Chennai Summer begins as seasonal shift in wind begins
With April almost coming to an end it is time to look for signs of seasonal shift in winds. “யானை வரும் பின்னே, மணியோசை வரும் முன்னே”. Southwest Monsoon onset over North Indian ocean normally happens around middle of May. But indications towards it start much earlier. The first set of indications are seasonal shift in winds….
Persisting dry weather aggravates summer over Peninsular India
With three weeks of April gone Peninsular India is firmly under the grip of summer. The overall temperatures has not been anomalously hot. Persisting dry weather though has been playing in the minds of the people. As we hear often “Never has it been this hot” is out in full force this year as well….