Wednesday, May 26, 2010

RT @dericklivera: @meerasapra 45 degrees :O then yu are cooked its rainy here in cochin (4:02pm)
Massive S-W monsoon showers forecast for S. Kerala on 31-May .. http://ow.ly/i/1KYf ... to 3-Jun... http://ow.ly/i/1KYh
Chennai - now 4:40pm is 35.7°C
Chennai - Take a look at past 1 week temperature graph .. http://ow.ly/i/1KWX
Chennai - At last Wind direction switching to S-E.. temp. will go down fast in another 1 hr.
@PPrakash >> Our data is direct from Oregon Scientific weather station.
3:30pm, Thunder showers over Central Jharkand, N-E Chatisgarh, S. N-E states, and some showers over Kerala.. http://ow.ly/i/1KWM
@udzi >> Chennai just reached the TOP heat of the year 2010 , 40.9°C (4:00pm)
Chennai - Sea breeze have not set in yet... that's why the Temperature is still holding at 40 deg C... It's over 2 hrs now.
Chennai - OOps just recorded 40.9°C (4:00pm)
Very heavy showers over central and South kerala on 25-May... http://ow.ly/1Q1jg

IMD chennai report for 25-May

Rainfall occurred at many places over Kerala and at a few places over Lakshadweep. Isolated rainfall occurred over Tamil Nadu and Coastal Karnataka. Mainly dry weather prevailed over coastal Andhra Pradesh and South Interior Karnataka and dry weather prevailed over Rayalaseema, Telangana and North Interior Karnataka.
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The following stations recorded very heavy-to-heavy rainfall in Centimetres:
Aluva (Ernakulam dt) 14, Kanjirapally (Kottayam dt) 8 and Kochi airport and Kottayam 7 each.
The other chief amounts of rainfall recorded in Centimetres:
Aminidivi 5, Kozhikode, Piravom (Ernakulam dt), Kayamkulam (Alapuzha dt) 4 each, Vadakara (Kozhikode dt), Haripad (Alapuzha dt), Vaikom (Kottayam dt) 3 each, Pechiparai (Kanyakumari dt), Perumbavoor (Ernakulam dt), Chengannur (Alapuzha dt) and Minicoy 2 each and Kuzhithurai and Boothapandi (both Kanyakumari dt), Devala (Nilgiris dt), Vadakkancherry (Thrissur dt), CIAL Kochi, Mancompu (Alapuzha dt), Kozha (Kottayam dt), Punalur, Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram airport, Nedumangad (Thiruvananthapuram dt) and Mulki (Dakshina Kannada dt) 1 each.
 Heat wave conditions prevailed over parts of Telangana.
 On Tuesday, the maximum temperature rose appreciably at one or two places over Tamil Nadu, rose at one or two places over Coastal Andhrapradesh, Telangana, fell at one or two places over Coastal Karnataka and changed little elsewhere over the region.
     They were  markedly above normal at one or two places over Telangana, coastal Andhra Pradesh, North Coastal Tamil Nadu, Coastal Karnataka, appreciably above normal at one or two places over rest Tamil Nadu, rest coastal Andhra Pradesh, rest Coastal Karnataka, below normal at one or two places over South interior Karnataka, Kerala and were generally normal over rest of the region.
 Ramagundam, Nizamabad and Adilabad recorded the highest maximum temperature of 47 degree Celsius in the region.
Rain map of 25-May .. http://ow.ly/i/1KVK
IMD :: Increase in rainfall activity over Lakshadweep, Kerala and south Karnataka.
Heat wave conditions would continue over parts of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and interior Maharashtra during next 48 hours.
Rain on 25-May, Silchar-12, Agartala-9, Kailashahar-8, Cochin and Kottayam-7 each, Malda, Long Island and Aminindevi-5 CM.
On 25-May, highest maximum temperature of 48.4°C was recorded at Kota (Rajasthan).
RT @ullasd: Monsoon trawling ban in Kerala to begin on June 15 http://bit.ly/aZHcfi ( ini meenum kittilla)
Chennai - 3:30pm and still its 40.5°C
Advance of the monsoon into mainland India has been stuck as seasonal winds failed to orient and lagged in speed and vertical profile.
Monsoon conditions :: winds need to turn southwesterly to westerly over the southwest coast over a height of 5-6 km above mean sea level.
US National Weather Services is of the view that the rains would spread along the entire west coast during the week ending May 31.

Monsoon stuck over Sri Lanka as wind speed flags

The advance of the South-West monsoon into mainland India has been stuck at the penultimate port of call in Sri Lanka as seasonal winds failed to orient themselves and lagged in speed and vertical profile.
Winds are southwesterly just beyond the peninsular tip, tending to become westerly to the immediate north.
What prevents their further streamlining is the incursion of dry northwesterly winds from the north Arabian Sea.

RAIN IN KERALA
The southwest coast, mainly Kerala, has been witnessing widespread to scattered thundershowers over the past few days, triggered by the limited churn set up by the southwesterly, westerly and northwesterly flows in the southeast Arabian Sea.
Ideally, winds need to turn southwesterly to westerly over the southwest coast over a height of 5-6 km above mean sea level.
But half way up, the winds are still easterly over the peninsula, according to observations by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM).
The Global Forecasting System (GFS) of the Climate Prediction System of the US National Weather Services is of the view that the rains would spread along the entire west coast during the week ending May 31.
Meanwhile, the Busan, South Korea-based Asia-Pacific Climate Centre (APCC) has come out with a June-July-August precipitation forecast that jells with the ‘overall good monsoon' outlook maintained by peer models across the world.
In the operative part of the forecast published on Tuesday, the APCC said that ‘areas of above normal rainfall lie over north India, East Asia covering eastern China, Korea and southern Japan.'
This is suggestive of a possibility of the intensification of the monsoon trough over north India and Changma over the Korean peninsula, the APCC said.

The build-up in northwest India ahead of the onset of monsoon is apace with intense heating of the plains taking place to levels not seen in the immediate past. The heating helps establish the ‘heat low' over northwest India, which is a crucial meteorological parameter facilitating the orderly progress of monsoon into the mainland. The ‘heat low' sets up the pressure and temperature gradient relative to the higher values over peninsular south where the monsoon rains set in. This pressure and temperature differential drives the system to the north of the country.
An India Meteorological Department (IMD) update on Tuesday said that severe heat wave conditions were prevailing over isolated pockets of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. Heat wave conditions prevailed over most parts of the rest of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and over many parts of Vidarbha and over isolated pockets of Punjab, Haryana, West Uttar Pradesh and Telangana.The highest maximum temperature of 48.2 deg Celsius was recorded at Kota in Rajasthan during the 24 hours ending Tuesday morning.
Satellite imagery showed convective (thundershower-causing) clouds over parts of central and southeast Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, Kerala and south Arabian Sea. Forecast until Friday spoke about the possibility of fairly widespread rain or thundershowers over Kerala, Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar Islands while they would be scattered over coastal Karnataka.
Towards the north, a western disturbance is forecast to bring scattered rain or thundershowers over Jammu and Kashmir and isolated over Himachal Pradesh and Uttarkhand from Thursday.
Scattered dust storm or thunderstorms have been forecast also over Haryana, Delhi, Punjab, north Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
Mumbai - Fifth monsoon with no radar ... http://ow.ly/1Q0Cp
Uttara Kannada gears up for monsoon ... http://ow.ly/1Q0BS
Chennai - Touched a max of 40.6°C (2:34pm) .. seems it'll not go beyond that.
RT @indyank: @weatherofindia Last week, I was in aus -one of the very few countries having winter May and now am in chennai from -1 to 40+
New threats to children of cyclone-hit Andhra Pradesh ... http://ow.ly/1PZQy
RT @19061980: @weatherofindia its NOT raining rite now trivandrum .u jst got urself lucky wid d picchar as well : http://ping.fm/mQFxh
@19061980 >> Thanks for that update. If you are goin to be in Kerala for Monsoon season. Pls update us regularly with REPORT and PICS.
RT @kintakitchu: Kerala is great . . Welcomed me with blistering rain . . . (Kerala is the only place in India receiving rain Now 2pm)
Chennai - Wind direction is from W-S-W... it should change to S-E or East for temperature to go down. It'll happen around 3:30pm.
Chennai - "40 again" ... 40.2°C (1:58pm)
@19061980 >> Is it raining there now? Pls update ur location inKerala. And if possible upload a Snap shot. Thanks
RT @sibi_john: @nitinsunny yep heavy rain in kochi last night .....seems Monsoon Has hit kerala
Chennai - Temp. 38.7°C (12:37pm) and rising fast.. it'll peak from 1:30pm to 3:30pm. After that the sea breeze will cool things down.!
@devswonderland >> we don't have a person and AWS on the ground to report it LIVE... soon it'll be done. Thanks for your interest.
11:30am, Rains has subsided over S. Kerala.. and are we going to have a circulation in S.central Arabian sea??? .. http://ow.ly/i/1KPs
Chennai - now 12:22pm is 38.0°C
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Nagercoil - bids adieu to plastic - District Collector explains how they did it! ... http://ow.ly/1PY0E
Indian monsoon winds pause, but seen reviving ... http://ow.ly/1PXZF
Heavy rain in Kanyakumari district for the past 4 days ... http://ow.ly/1PXYU
RT @rajugana: RT @weatherofindia: Baroda-9.30 AM - for the first time in recent months - passing clouds gather in the sky, heavy wind - west