Winter 2026 has been fairly good for most of Peninsular India. Interior areas, particularly over the Deccan Plateau, has seen cooler than normal nights. The plains of TN have also had a comfortable period since the turn of the new year. Most parts of the state have had pleasant day time conditions with cool night…
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Peninsular West Coast all set for Summer conditions
Most of us during our geography classes in school would have studied about seasons. The average Chennaiate though may Chennai has only “Summer and Summerest”. But January to early March is indeed a wonderful period for Chennai. A season when mild winter prevails with pleasant night time temperatures. Days may be warm but not hot…
Fresh spell of rains likely over parts of Tamil Nadu
Terms like El Nino / La Nina / MJO etc has started getting into common speak as weather awareness increases. It has also resulted in a lot of myths about flooding events. For e.g. the 2015 Chennai floods was connected to El Nino. Every subsequent El Nino episode brought a question of potential floods for…
Dry Weather ahead as Monsoon comes to an end
On behalf of all of us at COMK we wish everyone a Happy Pongal / Happy Makara Sankranti. It is indeed ironic as we get ready to celebrate Pongal / Sankranti we bid adieu to Northeast Monsoon. IMD in their bulletin yesterday confirmed conditions are favourable for cessation of Northeast Monsoon rains. As monsoon slows…
Deep Depression to bring widespread rains to Coastal TN
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” is a very popular quote from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Hurricane, Typhoon, Cyclonic Storm are names used by various meteorological agencies across the globe. But all of them are Tropical Cyclones by nature. IMD uses “Deep Depression” as an intermediary stage between Tropical…