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…
Tag: Southwest Monsoon
Veppasalanam thunderstorms back with a bang over Tamil Nadu
The last few days saw Tamil Nadu come under an intense spell of heat under dry weather. Places like Madurai, Coonoor, Nagapattinam, Karaikal recorded highest temperatures during September. The IMD observatory at Chennai Meenambakkam equalled 39.2°C the highest temperature during September. The dry weather for the past one month is well captured by this daily…
Monsoon Withdrawal to start behind schedule
As we get to the 2nd fortnight of September SWM Withdrawal becomes the most anticipated event for the Chennai Weather blogging community. The start of monsoon withdrawal is the first step towards things falling in place for Northeast Monsoon. Just like Monsoon onset IMD has a fairly robust criteria for withdrawal too. A couple of…
Abnormal Heat grips most parts of Tamil Nadu
One of the common comments we get to hear on weather regularly is “It has never been as hot like this before”. Discussions on climate change are now happening on a more regular basis and among common people too. IMD has clear guidelines on heatwave though abnormal heat is often used in a more confusing…
Heat comes back with a bang over Tamil Nadu
A post on heat is ironical when the talk among weather community of Tamil Nadu is about upcoming NEM. Yesterday as Peninsular India started seeing clearer skies heat returned with a bang over most of Tamil Nadu. While places like Madurai, Karur saw 4°C above max temperatures Tondi was abnormally hot by 6.4°C. The observatories…