As we get closer to the middle of October “When is Northeast Monsoon Onset” is the question that lingers win everyone’s mind. Just like Southwest Monsoon Onset IMD has a set of conditions for Northeast Monsoon onset too. The criteria listed by IMD for declaring onset is as below. Currently Southwest Monsoon continues to persist…
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Southwest Monsoon withdrawal to quicken setting stage for NEM arrival
It is now nearly two weeks since Southwest Monsoon withdrawal started almost a week behind schedule this year. After withdrawing completely from NW India Southwest Monsoon withdrawal has now covered parts of MP, UP and most of Gujarat. By 5th October in a normal year Monsoon would have withdrawn from all of Gujarat most of…
Northeast Monsoon 2024 – A tricky year for disaster managers
They say Monsoon is a word and Northeast Monsoon is an emotion. As the seasonal winds get ready to change butterflies start to flutter in the stomach of weather bloggers from Chennai. Every day starts and ends with looking intently into models trying to identify minute changes. Changes that could potentially alter the dynamics of…
Northwest Tamil Nadu to see much needed rains
Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri districts in Northwest Tamil Nadu share a lot in common with the adjoining areas of AP & Karnataka. It is no wonder this trijunction of modern states were called Morasunadu. One another common fabric that binds these areas in addition to culture is weather. Like Bengaluru the rainiest months coincide with the…
Monsoon Transition dynamics to start rolling
It is not often one sees the IMD observatories at Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata all record heavy rains on the same day. Yesterday the IMD observatory at Santacruz recorded 17 cms from persistent rains since afternoon. Similarly the IMD observatory at Dumdum, Kolkata recorded 8 cms from rains right through the day. Both IMD observatories…