Recent Updates
It is Time for South TN and Delta to participate in the NEM Rally from 2nd December
1. Performance of the Monsoon […]
Massive Rains dumped by Nivar and one of the best rain filled cyclone in recent times
W-NW movement cyclones are always […]
Weatherman Special – Cyclone Nivar will cross between Pondy & Chennai on 25th Night to 26th morning
Note: Athigara porvamana vanilai arikkaiku, […]
It will be South Tamil Nadu turn with heavy rains for next 2 days, West TN will also get good rains
Reason for heavy rains in […]
Rainfall Data
Massive Rains dumped by Nivar and one of the best rain filled cyclone in recent times
W-NW movement cyclones are always rain filled cyclones unlike the pure west movement ones like Thane, Gaje or Vardah. From morning Chennai is seeing gusty winds though we expected gusts to touch 100 km/hr, a maximum of 70 km/hr is recorded at Meenambakkam at morning. But it is not the winds, it is the rains which caused maximum trouble to the people. […]
It will be South Tamil Nadu turn with heavy rains for next 2 days, West TN will also get good rains
Reason for heavy rains in South and West Tamil Nadu in next two days MJO is presently in Phase 2 and the huge convection in Arabian Sea confirms its presence, we might see 1st Low Pressure after NEM onset and with easterlies in place, this low pressure will intensify and will move away from Indian coast. But MJO presence and the low […]
Long rainy night ahead for Chennai, Sriperumbedur 183 mm rainfall, Tuty gets record rains – overall awesome day ahead for Tamil Nadu
Yesterday Sum-up So far it was only only the Core City areas which was rocking but for 2nd day in a row. This time the lake areas got good rains, they were missing the rains since onset of monsoon. So a welcome spell in the lake catchment areas of Chennai. Other district in TN also got good rains. NEM Score Card Tamil […]
Chennai misses morning spell. Diwali day will see some morning rains & as we go into day rains will clear
Clouds went slightly north & south of Chennai and down south Tuty and Nellai district gets good rains (2nd one of the season). Chengalpet and Cuddalore districts too gets very good rains (1st one of the season). Still Chennai region got decent rainfall ending today morning. Not the heavy ones we expected. Chennai convergence has shifted south and yaru kannu vechakangalo only […]
West TN rocked and today it will be South TN’s day (Nellai, Tuty, T’kasi, Madurai, R’Puram, Theni, V’Nagar & KK)
West Tamil Nadu had got widespread rains in the last 4 days and the dry belts of Tiruppur, Coimbatore got much needed rains. The rains was particularly heavy in Nilgiris district in the Coonoor to Mettuapalayam stretch. In the past 2 days, Tuty has been getting rains and these rains in South TN will continue till 8th November and then there will […]
W.Tamil Nadu, Kerala to join S.Tamil Nadu for LWD Thunderstorms from Today/Tomorrow
South Tamil Nadu has been getting daily rains and yesterday night massive rains stuck Madurai and 1st century of the season was recorded by Madurai. Here are the rainfall recorded in South Tamil Nadu on 31.10.2020 (min 20 mm) Madurai ——– Madurai IMD AWS – 102 Viraganur – 102 Madurai Airport – 81 Thirumangalam – 76 Madurai South – 64 Sholavandan – […]
Rain Updates
It will be South Tamil Nadu turn with heavy rains for next 2 days, West TN will also get good rains
Reason for heavy rains in […]
4th Spell of monsoon starts tonight in CTN and next 2 days looks good for KTCC & South TN will rock too.
The spells of monsoon rains […]
Chennai misses morning spell. Diwali day will see some morning rains & as we go into day rains will clear
Clouds went slightly north & […]
Cyclone Updates
It is Time for South TN and Delta to participate in the NEM Rally from 2nd December
1. Performance of the Monsoon till date. North and North Interior Tamil Nadu – Tirupattur, Chennai, Kancheepuram, Tiruvannamalai, Ranipet have got good rains while Chengalpet, Tiruvallur, Villupuram and Vellore have got normal rains. South Tamil Nadu – Virudhunagar, Sivaganga and Madurai have got good rains while Theni, Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi have got normal rains. West Tamil Nadu – Only Tiruppur has rocked […]
Massive Rains dumped by Nivar and one of the best rain filled cyclone in recent times
W-NW movement cyclones are always rain filled cyclones unlike the pure west movement ones like Thane, Gaje or Vardah. From morning Chennai is seeing gusty winds though we expected gusts to touch 100 km/hr, a maximum of 70 km/hr is recorded at Meenambakkam at morning. But it is not the winds, it is the rains which caused maximum trouble to the people. […]
Weatherman Special – Cyclone Nivar will cross between Pondy & Chennai on 25th Night to 26th morning
Note: Athigara porvamana vanilai arikkaiku, neengal official agenyin, forecast ai nadavum. Post podran podran solli, i have made you wait and i should not put a mokka post, so a big post. This post is pure interpretation with personal capacity. To be honest, this has been one of the difficult cyclone to interpret even with all the high end numerical models available. […]
MJO’s 1st Baby (Nivar) growing in Bay, two scenarios, favorable one is between Karaikkal to Chennai
With MJO in our Basin, it is inevitable to avoid Low Pressures / Depressions / Cyclones in our seas. Presently, the kingmaker MJO is in very favorable phase in our basin and it is very conducive for development of Cyclone. The 1st system (system here defines low pressure as of now) is fully home grown baby of Bay of Bengal […]
Pre-NEM Deep Depression to dump huge rains in North Andhra & Telangana
October 10-15 – it is time of NAP to West Bengal to enjoy Pre-NEM systems October 10-20 is period historically well known for Pre-NEM Cyclones and most of them go towards North Andhra to West Bengal region. We have seen some extreme cyclones too in these periods namely Phailin in 2013 and Hudhud in 2014. Shear Relents and 2020 Deep Depression breathes […]
Cyclone Nisarga is not the 1st Cyclone for Mumbai, lets see the 1940 & 1948 Cyclones
Mumbai Cyclones are very very rare, very rarely we see cyclone making landfall as Cyclonic Storm in Kerala or Karnataka or Maharashtra. We can note down them and even memorize them. Many news channels are reporting that Cyclone Nisarga is going to be the 1st Cyclone to cross near Mumbai. Have gone through the archives and found that two significant cyclones (1940 […]
Recent Articles
288 mm rainfall fell in 6 hours & was one of the Nature’s balancing act for Core Chennai City
Right from start of the year the Core Chennai City (Old City Areas) was missing all the spells and in South West Monsoon Nungambakkam ended with just 293 mm rainfall in 4 months (lowest rains in last 10 years) while Meenambakkam recorded whopping 597 mm in the same period. You can see twice the amount of rainfall had fallen other parts of […]
North East Monsoon 2020 – Tamil Nadu Weatherman Special
North East Monsoon will be here soon, its the lifeline of Tamil Nadu. So lets see whats in store for us this year. Many would have already seen outputs from other weather bloggers who have already given very good articles on the upcoming NEM. As I am getting old, it is getting very tough to put value added posts, apart from the […]