On Tuesday both the IMD observatories at Chennai recorded their hottest day of this year’s summer. While the airport observatory recorded 41.3°C the city observatory recorded 41.1°C. On Monday the Nungambakkam observatory recorded its first 40°C of the summer by reaching 40.6°C. Chennai AP observatory saw temperature of 39.8°C at 5:30 PM indicating how weak…
Tag: Summer
South Tamil Nadu and Kerala better placed for rains
The last couple of years have seen a lot of progress in Ai/ML weather models which place a lot of emphasis on past events. Based on how events happened under similar conditions these Ai/ML models create forecasts with best probable scenarios. Numerical weather models which are based on differential equations place a lot of emphasis…
Defining Week ahead for Bengaluru Rains
Since the start of 2024 the two IMD observatories at Bengaluru, City & AP, has received total rains of 19 and 3.4 mm respectively. Between 8th of January and 2nd May the city observatory did not receive any worthwhile spell of rains. 2024 was the first instance in more than 40 years April did not…
Peninsular India all set to witness the worst phase of Summer 2024
It is no understatement to say Summer this year has been brutal so far over the interior areas of Peninsular India. Cambridge Dictionary calls Weather as “the conditions in the air above the earth such as wind, rain, or temperature, especially at a particular time over a …”.Pattern as “a particular way in which something…
Missing Summer over North India puts a question mark over monsoon dynamics
All of us must have read Land and Sea breeze as a school student as part of our geography lessons. The Indian Summer Monsoon is a large scale Land,Ocean and Atmosphere system and possibly the largest weather phenomenon. In a way it pretty much resembles how Land and Sea Breeze works on a local scale….