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…
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….
Southwest Monsoon potentially heading for a break
Often it is remarked while the large scale global factors play a crucial role in the overall performance of Monsoon seasons, it is important not to ignore the intra seasonal oscillations that possibly decide on the active and weak phase of Monsoon during the season. Ofcourse it goes without saying these intra seasonal oscillations owe…
Weak Monsoon conditions give thunderstorm opportunity for Tamil Nadu
The last couple of weeks has seen Southwest Monsoon show some of its regular traits of becoming vigorous over the Western Ghats and the Himalayan states. The weekend saw extreme rainfall instances over parts of North India with record breaking rains from places like Chandigarh, Delhi etc. Many parts of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh saw intense…