Wednesday, October 06, 2010

RT @merrywitch: I ♥ Goa - especially in the rain :) http://ping.fm/6oRwh .. (6:01pm) heavy showers in Goa
RT @igoa: RT @artuc: When we say it's raining in GOA, we mean "rain". http://ping.fm/mbLGd (6:07pm)
4pm, Still a heavy cloud cover along S & central coastal Andhra... while heavy monsoon showers lashing Kerala coast.. http://ow.ly/i/4lSY
2pm, Heavy showers all along Coastal Kerala and Karnataka continues... http://ow.ly/i/4lLs
2pm, More heavy cloud formations seen along S & central Coast.. while Chennai having a Cloud break and mild sun shine.. http://ow.ly/i/4lLs
Nagercoil - Sharp showers continue to lash from midnight.. this is the 2nd consecutive day of showers. Monsoon at its peak !
Swine flu drops as monsoon retreats ... http://ow.ly/2PdJb
@twit4SSS >> 95B is the name given to the present LOW pressure system over Bay... B stands for Bay of Bengal.
Latest MJO shows.. The present WET MJO phase over Bay will become dry from 20-Oct till 4-Nov... http://ow.ly/i/4lEd
ECMWF has maintained the outlook for a follow-up “low” over SouthWest Bay around October 13
CPC has put the Bay of Bengal under a cyclone watch during October 12 to 18 ... http://ow.ly/2PaOY
Six killed as monsoon rains lash Karnataka ... http://ow.ly/2PaE0

Big brother Bay "LOW 95 B" drives rains across peninsula

The upper air cyclonic circulation over South-East Arabian Sea and the low-pressure area over West-Central Bay of Bengal have together set up an active trough across peninsular India.

UPPER TROUGH
The Bay “low” is approaching the Chennai-South Coastal Andhra Pradesh coast and is expected to strengthen along the way but weather models continued to suggest that it would be taken away North-North-East along the coast.
This would happen under the overarching influence of an upper air trough embedded in a passing western disturbance travelling east from North-West India and dipping low over Central India.
The system is expected to weaken after its western flanks are compromised due to proximity to land.
The western disturbance will ensure that it gets staggered along for an eventful landfall either over Orissa and Gangetic West Bengal coast, according to various tracking models.
In any case, the interaction between the two weather systems would bring moderate to heavy rainfall to most of the South-East Coast and parts of East India during its pendency.

CYCLONE WATCH?
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) has maintained the outlook for a follow-up “low” over SouthWest Bay around October 13.
This was seemingly corroborated on Tuesday by the Climate Prediction Centre (CPC) of the US National Weather Services and separately by the US National Centres for Environmental Prediction.
Interestingly, the CPC has put the Bay of Bengal under a cyclone watch during October 12 to 18, though the confidence level about the outcome was admittedly low on Tuesday.

STRONG MJO
It based its outlook on La Nina conditions (reverse of El Nino) in the East Equatorial Pacific and an enhanced phase of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) wave, the periodical upper level disturbance that passes over the region with implications for ground-level weather.
Leading MJO trackers indicated that the Arabian Sea, Central Equatorial Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal are all under the grip of a strong MJO phase concurrently.
The Earth System Research Laboratory of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expected the MJO phase to linger in varied strength over the region until October 24.
Two other MJO trackers did not believe it would last this long and might peter out in a week's time. The Empirical Wave Propagation technique indicates that the next active phase of MJO would not be in until November 8.
On Tuesday, over upstream South China Sea, a seasonal monsoon trough packing monsoon winds on retreat (North-East monsoon) continued to hold itself strong overnight on Tuesday.
This trough lay across the Upper South and East Thailand through the country's North-East linking with active “low” over upper South China Sea, according to a Thailand Met Department (TMD) update.
On Tuesday, the trough looked to sneak into extreme South-East Bay of Bengal, the next gateway for North-East monsoon. But here, the winds were southwesterly to the south of the existing “low.”
Winds have to be easterly to northeasterly along the Tamil Nadu coast before the onset of North-East monsoon can be declared.
It does not get declared before October 10 in any case, even if the wind pattern and other parameters fall into place ahead of this cut-off date.
According to the TMD, torrential rain and isolated heavy falls over central, eastern and southern parts of the country would continue for three more days during when flash floods have been warned of.
The Andaman Sea would continue to be very cloudy with fairly widespread thundershowers and isolated heavy rain. As mentioned, the winds are going to be southwesterly with speeds ranging between 15 to 35 km/hr.
Meanwhile, an India Meteorological Department (IMD) update said that the 24 hours ending Tuesday that fairly widespread rainfall occurred over Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It was scattered over Lakshadweep, Jharkhand and Gangetic West Bengal.
While the marauding winds were southwesterly over Kerala, the rest of the peninsula was buffeted mostly by easterlies to northeasterlies as dictated by the Bay “low.”
The upper cyclonic circulation over South-East Arabian Sea was reduced to merely playing second fiddle.
IMD satellite imagery on Tuesday showed the presence of convective clouds over parts of Tamil Nadu, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Gangetic West Bengal, the Bay of Bengal, the Andaman Sea and South Arabian Sea.
A warning issued by the IMD said that isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall would occur over Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Kerala, Coastal Karnataka, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Coastal Orissa and Tamil Nadu during the next two days.
Isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall is also likely over Coastal West Bengal and the North-Eastern States from Wednesday onwards.
11am, Take a look at the massive showers along S. Andhra coast ... http://ow.ly/i/4lDO
Very heavy withdrawal south west showers for S. Kerala coast will lash till evening of 10-Oct-2010... http://ow.ly/i/4lDJ
The upper level circulation will persist along S. Andhra coast till evening of 8-Oct.. while the Low level one will prevail till 9-Oct
More heavy showers for N. Tamilnadu, Chennai and S. Andhra coast for another 48 hrs.. http://ow.ly/i/4lDt
For Chennai, N.Tamilnadu and S. Andhra rain will start to clear off from evening of 9-Oct.. and NO showers expected till 14-Oct-2010
Latest position and track so far of "LOW - 95 B" ... http://ow.ly/i/4lve
Nagercoil - Steady Intermittent showers all night long... and more on its way now.
As a result of this "95 B"... South west showers are heavy along S.Karnatak coast and all over kerala coast ... http://ow.ly/i/4lpT
Chennai - Present cloud movement is from W-N-W and more showers possible before 12pm... and more after that.
Latest satellite shot shows.. Very heavy cloud activity along S. & central Andhra coast... http://ow.ly/i/4lpy .... http://ow.ly/i/4lpC
The LOW and its low level circulation is positioned E-N-E of Chennai .. http://ow.ly/i/4lps ... http://ow.ly/i/4lpu
"95 B" will continue to move in W-N-W direction more towards S. Andhra coast .
Chennai - Heavy showers with wind lashed chennai suburbs at 7am.. and now drizzling in some parts.. all due to "95 B"
"Low - 95 B"... is now a well marked Low pressure system with circulations extending upto upper air levels. Positiioned at 13.5 N and 86.1 E