Easterly wave will cause heavy rains from Thursday onwards. A few showers cannot be rules out for today and tomorrow.
Posted by: keaweather | November 23, 2010
Easterly wave will cause heavy rains from Thursday onwards. A few showers cannot be rules out for today and tomorrow.
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By: Best Tire Pressure Gauge - Currie Enterprises EZ Tire Deflator on November 25, 2010
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New topic
http://keaweather.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/good-rains-forecasted-from-thursday-night/
By: keaweather on November 24, 2010
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schools closed due to rains in cudalore tiruvarur districts-sun news
By: jon on November 24, 2010
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Heavy rain here in Kumbakonam since 4am.
By: Mohammed Riaz on November 24, 2010
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sai: rain is behind us…most probably aftr 9 am,we wil start to receive rain…i wish to be a heavy rain,but i thnk, this rain wil not be with us,for a long time,may be till evening it wil sustain…..clouds moved more westerly towards central part..and also showing fast movement…
By: selcyclone on November 24, 2010
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CUT OFF:The low-level bridge across the Noyyal river at Palayakottai near Arachalur in Erode was washed away in flash floods on Monday night.
http://www.hindu.com/2010/11/24/stories/2010112460870400.htm
By: BHASKARAN on November 24, 2010
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Chennai has received only 451 mm rainfall this season, which is 127 mm less than the average. But, this shortfall is not a matter of concern as the city had already exceeded the annual average rainfall of 122 cm due to the showers during the southwest monsoon.
http://www.hindu.com/2010/11/24/stories/2010112459930300.htm
By: BHASKARAN on November 24, 2010
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http://www.hindu.com/2010/11/24/stories/2010112499961000.htm – NEM vigorous in Tamilnadu
By: BHASKARAN on November 24, 2010
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Where are the rains ?
Rained for half an hour here around 5 15.
By: Super sai on November 24, 2010
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heavy shower for 10 mins at Adambakkam
By: ks on November 24, 2010
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@ Super Sai..
If ther is eastern ghats near chennai just as how western ghats is ther for mangalore, i guess Chennai would have an annual rainfall slightly higher, but most of it would be form NE monsoon… PM+SWM+NEM would be 10+20+115 = 145.. But again if the NE monsoon fails, the annual rainfall would be drastcially low that year!! And one more intersting thing…chances are that if thiruvallur or arakkonam are at agubme’s position, would they get more than 200cms in just a course of 2 and a half months?? (Because of orographic effect)?? Would be very interesting!!
By: Arjun L V on November 24, 2010
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i am gonna slepp..bye KN and selcyclone.
By: Vinodh on November 24, 2010
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i have pointed out the monsoon trough position and the low pressures in indian ocean.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/55855291@N02/5201651653/
By: Vinodh on November 24, 2010
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selcyclone,yes the clouds are organising but vortex are slightly interacting with srilanka that would inhibit development .As far as rain is concerned the entire coastal TN will get very heavy rain especially the southern districts even northern part is going to get good rain as it moves in west-northwest direction.
By: Vinodh on November 24, 2010
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KN,:)
By: Vinodh on November 23, 2010
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DAMN SURE!!!! tis low pressure wil make south TN TO FLOAT…ESPECIALLY Delta districts will b worst affctd….now its showing sign of developing ,convective clouds r organising…,isn’t it vinod?
By: selcyclone on November 23, 2010
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Conditions are becoming favourable for the south indian cyclone season to start.The trough is now lying from south bay to parts of arabian till south east indian ocean.Thats a favourable conditon for cyclogenisis in south indian ocean so by early december or by november end cyclone season will start in indian ocean.For north indian ocean the focus should be south bay and southwest bay.
By: Vinodh on November 23, 2010
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It is unfortunate that not even one of them became true
By: Karthik Narayan on November 23, 2010
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Yessss Vinodh.. This time all of KR’s claim collapsed into pieces
a) Ramanathapuram is extremely dry
b) September is the wettest SWM month of Chennai
c) Kuzhithurai will struggle to cross 130cm
d) Tirupattur is a 100cm+ station
e) Tambaram is much rainier than city and airport and much much rainier than sriperumbudur
f) Ooty is unimaginably more awesome than Kodaikanal
g) Vishakapattinam is a waste during NEM
By: Karthik Narayan on November 23, 2010
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22%C2%B0_halo
By: rdhinakar on November 23, 2010
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If eastern ghats are close to chennai and tall… then
a)Chennai would get catastrophic rainfall for an easterly wave….
b) delta would be washed off of its fertile soil.. and it ll become laterite like kerala and coastal kk… suitable only for coconut and low quality rice…
c) The rich 1st most urbanized and 3rd most industrialized state in the country would have taken a back seat
I have never felt Chennai receives less rainfall.. I have seen the high temperature as the negative not the rainfall… that s where bangalore scores
By: Karthik Narayan on November 23, 2010
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KN,ramnathapuram is getting good rains
..looks like this is going to be the case till december 
By: Vinodh on November 23, 2010
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The large trough has caused another low pressure area in south indian ocean.This will track slowly in southwest direction towards maritius and madagascar but the verticle wind shear is very high so it is unlikely it will intensufy furthur.
By: Vinodh on November 23, 2010
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@Jon Kodai cut off due to rains in kodai or rains in pazhani or rains in vathalagundu?
By: Karthik Narayan on November 23, 2010
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Looks like low is going to interact with srilanka so that will stall its development.
By: Vinodh on November 23, 2010
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Halo, dont necessarily signify rains .It signifies only the weather system which is either approaching a particular area or closeby.In our case it is signifies rain since system is approaching towards us.
By: Vinodh on November 23, 2010
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Halo, dont necessarily signify rains .It signifies only the weather system which is either approaching a particular area or closeby.In our case it is signify rain since it is approaching towards us.
By: Vinodh on November 23, 2010
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vijay,halo signifies the cirrus clouds in the sky .Most of the time cirrus clouds will accompany weather systems.In our case it is low pressure.
By: Vinodh on November 23, 2010
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If the eastern ghtas is going to be as big as western ghats then SWM will be very minimal.NEM rainfall will increase.Cyclones will cause extraordinary amount of rainfall.cyclones dont get repelled by mountains only thing is that LLC sometimes wont survive but for that too the horizontal length of mountain should be huge.
By: Vinodh on November 23, 2010
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then rain is for sure?
By: vijay on November 23, 2010
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sel,
thanx
By: vijay on November 23, 2010
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halooooo…makes bay wit low….
By: selcyclone on November 23, 2010
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jon,
wat’s the advantage of huge halo around moon,i often heard in this blog
super sai
really i forgot all my geo which i have studied in my school also im weak in geo sry to give this statement!
By: vijay on November 23, 2010
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sai:if eastern hats is taller, then also interior wil score more than chennai.,….the possiblities of recieving gr8 rains 4 chennai is tat chennai should lie in machilpatinam zone tat too coast should stretch to west central bay…….if so ,all cyclones will sleep with us,cyclone will form in front of us.,sw monsoon’s bay branch wil batter us,wil strike directly,,chennai wil b the wettest place in the earth….lol.
By: selcyclone on November 23, 2010
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huge halo
By: jon on November 23, 2010
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@ Super sai : coming to your question on height of Eastern ghats. Eastern ghats is high in sections of AP, Orrisa, Chatisgarh. also they are high in erode, salem, Vellore and nilgiris districts of TN.
If they are high enough:
1. Central TN to vindyas would be desert
2. You wont have any major rivers
3. Much of South India will be arid and unfit to live
4. Cyclones when hitting a high mountain range will get diluted
5. Mountains make their own weather! that may repel the cyclones.
By: rdhinakar on November 23, 2010
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@sai
i follow JON comment dat chennai DIFFICULT TO TOUCH 100CMS.but NEM monsoon falls in 3 months 100cms r more.dat difficult to manage chennai life…floods traffic..lol!
BUT ONE HAPPY THING IF CHENNAI IN HIGH ALTITUDE -COOL TEMPRATURES…DATZ GOOD enough p:
By: Gta man on November 23, 2010
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@ Super sai and all: I think I have to post my long old Geography lesson over here ( I last studied Geography in 1992!)
1. Eastern Ghats, Western Ghats, Vindhiyas, Himalayas etc belong to mountain range called continental divide.
2. India was formed from islands and merged to form a section of Gondwanaland. Later this land was struck with Asia to form Himalayas. India was close to Antarctica
These several collisions, resulted in submerging of west coast just after the Western Ghats and tilting of the south India and emergence of Deccan and Vindyas.
Even now Vindyas form a barrier to cold and rain reaching in full force either side of it as it is folded mountain! Western arm of SW Monsoon never crosses vindyas. Only Eastern branch reach north Indian plains also climate, soil, flora and fauna all different behind vindyas. Rivers from that mountain range mostly flow towards the north or west depending on the side they originate. I am going into all these.
Due to stopping of plate activity, these mountains except Himalayas stopped growing altogether. Hence, what we find now is a fixed permanent feature.
By: rdhinakar on November 23, 2010
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Super sai, i think chennai wil struggle to reach even 100cm in the presence of eastern ghats since it may block the sw monsoon rains during july,august and sept
By: Jon on November 23, 2010
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drizzles over here for past one hour with intervals
By: vijay on November 23, 2010
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Jon,vinod,kea,sel,guna,kr,kn,dhina,rajkmr,gta,thunder,vijay,rich and all others .
What are your views?
Would chennai be a rainier place if the eastern ghats were as high as the western ghats or not ?
Supa sai
By: Super sai on November 23, 2010
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If eastern ghats were like western ghats the deccan plateau would have become a high altitude desert.
By: Super sai on November 23, 2010
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If there is no western ghats……watz d annual rainfall for chennai imagine!!!
Omg vizag 7cm;-( werez d clouds in coastal a.p…..lol
By: Gta man on November 23, 2010
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Doppler working now.
By: Mohammed Riaz on November 23, 2010
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supersai
on the contrary if the western ghats were absent one of two possibilities may occur
1] rains over west coast will decrease.rain over eastern half of peninsula may increase.however all rivers flowing in the peninsula will cease to flow.
2] rains over west coast will decrease .rains over east may remain the same and the whole of the peninsula may become semiarid .the moisture from the arabian sea may just flow over the peninsula without precipitating and paradoxically rains over northeast india may increase
By: kamesh on November 23, 2010
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