Recent Updates
Depression as Low pressure moved into land on Wednesday. Century in Tiruvallur.
Finally after 5 days of […]
Special update – Meaty western bands to fall over North TN incl KTCC (Chennai)
The meaty western bands which […]
Sirkazhi record rains in comparison with historical heavy 24 hrs Rains in Delta / Tamil Nadu
Sirkazhi previous highest 24 hrs […]
A perfect day from Delta to Chennai coast, break rains break rains for KTCC
Present Position of low Low […]
TWM Special: Mettur Dam close to breaking the 2005 outflows and other interesting stats
1961 Inflow: 3,01,052 cusecs […]
Special: Water released from Mettur Dam. The last time Mettur was opened in May was in 1945.
The opening day details of […]
Rainfall Data
Depression as Low pressure moved into land on Wednesday. Century in Tiruvallur.
Finally after 5 days of teasing and testing patience of all, the Depression weakened as Low Pressure moved into on 23.11.2022 (wednesday afternoon). Yesterday evening it was located around Vellore. Some Rains were reported in North Tamil Nadu but nothing significant. New Manali in Chennai topped with 51 mm rainfall. While in Tiruvallur there was a century in Tamaraipakkam and 70 mm […]
Sirkazhi record rains in comparison with historical heavy 24 hrs Rains in Delta / Tamil Nadu
Sirkazhi previous highest 24 hrs rainfall was 399 mm recorded on 15th November 1991. What we witnessed in Sirkazhi is a special event. The intense cloud banding around the centre of the Low Pressure fell over Mayiladuthurai district. The Sirkazhi Agro readings crossed 550 mm in 24 hrs and the official data is out with 436 mm in 24hrs ending on 12th […]
A perfect day from Delta to Chennai coast, break rains break rains for KTCC
Present Position of low Low is still positioned East North East of Lanka and since it is far away from our coast, the coastal belts are getting heavy rains, Mayiladuthurai district is being pounded as we post this. Today too Delta to Chennai coast will be in hot spot while nearby districts like Villupuram, Ariyalur, Perambalur, Thanjavur, Salem, Thiruvannamalai, Ranipet, Vellore will […]
Heavy rains in the Chennai City and other KTCC belts to continue for few more hours till evening
What a start it has been to City Monsoon, the observed rainfall till today morning shows the impact, north Chennai got while southern Chennai though it got rains, it missed out on the intense spells north Chennai got. The map and the data are detailed below – 24 hrs Rainfall in mm in KTCC on 01.11.2022, North Chennai special (min 40 […]
NEM ends, Dry days for next 3 weeks, MJO may return around Mid-Feb !!
A great North East Monsoon comes to end for Tamil Nadu even bettering the tally of 2015. Lets see the top North east monsoon rainfall for Tamil Nadu & Puducherry in the last 30 years Best North East Monsoon in last 30 years for Tamil Nadu 1997 – 810 mm (All time highest) 1993 – 784 mm 2005 – 773 mm 2021 […]
Isolated rains in TN to continue till 18th January, MJO enters TN in February
Rains have been happening at isolated places in Tamil Nadu for the past 4 days. Particularly in the Anthiyur-Varatupallam belt in Erode and Virudhunagar belt. The easterlies based convergence at isolated locations are expected to happen 2 more days till 18th January. After which whatever isolated rains happening will become even more isolated. Coastal places such as Chennai too has chance in […]
Rain Updates
Depression as Low pressure moved into land on Wednesday. Century in Tiruvallur.
Finally after 5 days of […]
Special update – Meaty western bands to fall over North TN incl KTCC (Chennai)
The meaty western bands which […]
Sirkazhi record rains in comparison with historical heavy 24 hrs Rains in Delta / Tamil Nadu
Sirkazhi previous highest 24 hrs […]
A perfect day from Delta to Chennai coast, break rains break rains for KTCC
Present Position of low Low […]
Cyclone Updates
Depression as Low pressure moved into land on Wednesday. Century in Tiruvallur.
Finally after 5 days of teasing and testing patience of all, the Depression weakened as Low Pressure moved into on 23.11.2022 (wednesday afternoon). Yesterday evening it was located around Vellore. Some Rains were reported in North Tamil Nadu but nothing significant. New Manali in Chennai topped with 51 mm rainfall. While in Tiruvallur there was a century in Tamaraipakkam and 70 mm […]
Special update – Meaty western bands to fall over North TN incl KTCC (Chennai)
The meaty western bands which we discussed today morning is likely to fall over Chennai on Monday early morning and heavy rains are expected for North TN on Monday and Tuesday then the low pressure / depression will start to weaken a lot with on and off trough based rains spreading across other parts of Tamil Nadu. The timing of rains might […]
TWM Special update – Cyclone Shaheen to cross Oman with 120 km/hr winds & dump heavy rains
Though the mainland Oman sees cyclones often, but cyclones which crosses with wind speed crossing the mainland Oman are very rare, as most cyclone will start to fizzle out in the desert belt as a result of dry winds. But Cyclone Shaheen has manged to survive and even going to cross the coast of oman later tonight with with sustained winds around […]
Super Rains in KK and Tuty gets more winds than what cyclone gave to North AP
Amazing rains were observed in entire Kanyakumari district and from today morning the rains have stopped. This spell reduced the shortfall in the SWM quota. Remember Kanyakumari had record May month rains, so this shortfall is not going to a alarming one and Dams in Kanyakumari are having good storage. Today Valparai and Nilgiris will get heavy rains as the low moves […]
Heavy Rainfall for Kanyakumari & highwinds for KK, Pamban, Tuty, Vedaranayam- Delta belts
We have seen the template so many times, a cyclone crossing north AP or Odisha or West Bengal coast, the it activates the westerlies to surge and converge over South Kerala and Kanyakumari regions. Even this year May month Cyclone Yaas when it crossed Odisha, Kanyakumari, Ramanathpuram-Pamban, Muthupet-Vedaranayam belt got to see high winds. Heavy rainfall Heavy to very heavy rainfall is […]
Cyclone Yaas and Tamil Nadu Weather Update for coming days
No sleep, so this update at 3.00 am. So forgive for the typos and language. As winds converge around the low pressure the Veppa Salanam (Heat based or Sun based Convective) rains in Tamil Nadu will reduce. Once the low becomes Cyclone it will tightly wrap up the clouds around it. Hence, convergence will happen at sea around the low pressure are. […]
Recent Articles
TWM Special: Mettur Dam close to breaking the 2005 outflows and other interesting stats
1961 Inflow: 3,01,052 cusecs Discharge: 2,84,606 cusecs 2005 Inflow: 2,41,300 cusecs Discharge: 2,31,802 cusecs 2022 Inflow expected: 2,00,000 cusecs Discharge expected: 2,10,000 to 2,30,000 cusecs 2018 Inflow: 1,95,000 cusecs Discharge: 2,05,000 cusecs 2013 Inflow: 1,63,072 cusecs Discharge: 1,22,617 cusecs 1924 before the construction of Dam, the flow was 4,56,000 cusecs. Remains the highest till date. 2019 the highest inflow was 2,30,000 […]
Kanyakumari cloves, Karuppur kalamkari paintings & Kallakurichi wood carvings joins the treasures of Tamil Nadu
With break in rains, this is an off weather post. When you visit these towns, make sure you know where to buy the authentic products and let the heritage of our Tamil Nadu continue without getting lost by buying these products rather than buying the modern ones. This post is an update from the previous version putup in Facebook and Twitter with […]