The Indian sub continent is home to various forms of arts and dances. While most of them are learnt through formal training a few get passed through generations by practice. One such art known as “கழைக்கூத்து” in Tamil. Similar to the trapeze act in circuses this requires a lot of concentration, balance and coordination. Convective…
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Active phase of thunderstorms ahead for Tamil Nadu
Between 6th and 17th August the Standardized Rainfall Anomaly Index from IMD, a tool to monitor active and break phases of monsoon, was below -1.0 coinciding with the break in monsoon period. Subsequently only 19th August saw the Rainfall index cross 1.0 indicating though the break in monsoon period came to an end the monsoon…
Southwest Monsoon struggles against large scale suppression
Southwest Monsoon, Northeast Monsoon, Western Disturbance the Indian Sub Continent is home to diverse weather events. India’s strength lies in her diversity. COMK wishes all a Happy Independence Day. May India continue to be the guiding culture for the rest of the globe. For regular weather observers it is not a surprise when one says…
Break in Monsoon period thunderstorms to pick up over Tamil Nadu
Southwest Monsoon is a weather event that stretches for nearly 120 days across the Indian Sub Continent. With such a long season every monsoon season goes through ebbs and flows characterized by active and break phases. While the break in monsoon period was known and tracked for more than a century by the Indian meteorologists….
Bay Circulation could provide another bonus spell of rains over leeward Peninsular East Coast
Over many centuries the eastern coast line of the Indian Sub Continent has been shaped through an interaction of floods, sea and cyclones. There are a few areas which show a pronounced concave shape while a couple of them show a convex shape in the coastline. If one were to plot the strongest cyclone landfalls…