This year Northeast Monsoon has been a season of “Fits and Starts. Long dry spells interspersed with bouts of rainfall event that are of short duration. Unfavourable tropical waves during the first fortnight of November did not help either. The heaviest rains during NEM season is normally during LPA / Depression / Cyclone. But the…
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Spell of cold weather ahead for Tamil Nadu
Northeast Monsoon this year has seen short burst of active monsoon interspersed with longer spell of dry weather. Large parts of the first fortnight of November saw dry weather conditions. 2nd fortnight slowly saw Monsoon get back on track with Cyclonic Storm Ditwah tilting the seasonal rainfall charts for many districts. This is visible in…
Stalled Deep Depression batters Chennai coast
24 hours is a long time in weather. Ask the people of Odisha when a stalled super cyclone created for 24 hours after making landfall in the year 1999. Ask the people of Chennai when a stalled Michaung brought the city to its knees 2 years back. 1st week of December is slowly turning out to be a period of extreme…
Cyclone Senyar likely to form later today. History in the making
One of the interesting things about weather blogging is monitoring events that are unique. Over the next 12 to 36 hours the current generation of weather watchers may be witness to two historic events unfolding. The first of the one is likely to happen in the next 12 hours or so. Since record keeping in…
Consensus building towards next rainfall event for Coastal TN
Roughly ten days back discussions around the weather blogging community centred around will NEM 2025 revive. It was almost 3 weeks since the last meaningful spell of rains and there was a lot of scepticism on possible rains. This despite weather models indicating the return of rains back over coastal TN. Even when the Low…