Chennai - slightly more cloudy today... and humidity is bit high... odd chance of a rain from Friday to Monday

Another chance of a UAC / Low over S-E corner bay around 25-Feb

From evening of 22-Feb.. the wind direction over entire S-E coast will be again from N-E and min. temps may drop again.

From 20-Feb till 22-Feb.. there'll be more moisture push from Bay into S-E peninsula coast .. fanned by a anti-cyclone over N.central Bay

The present moisture push from S. Bay will travel or skirt along S-E peninsula coast and die over N. Bay on 19-Feb

Forecasts differ on spread of easterly rains

International model forecasts continue to favour scattered rain along a northeast-southwest gradient along the east coast and immediate interior on Sunday and Monday. Moisture incursion has been indicated both from equatorial Indian Ocean (south of the peninsula) as well as from the coastal waters of the Bay of Bengal to fuel the precipitation.

Contrary to forecasts, there is no formation of any well-defined circulation in the Bay waters; it would just amount to a ‘perturbation’ of available moisture under the influence of easterly winds.

A feeble western disturbance is forecast to affect the western Himalayan region by the weekend but forecasts show the system getting some accentuation presumably from residual moisture from a prevailing ‘active’ western disturbance fanned up further by warmer easterly winds from the Bay.

This is what could likely trigger the rains along the coast and immediate interior, but which India Meteorological Department (IMD) seeks to confine to Orissa, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh.

An IMD outlook on Wednesday afternoon said that the active western disturbance would continue to affect western Himalayan region and the Indo-Gangetic plains on Thursday and the Northeastern States during the next three days.

An IMD heavy weather alert said that isolated heavy rainfall would occur over Uttar Pradesh, sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim on Thursday.

Isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall would occur over Arunachal Pradesh and Assam during on Thursday and Friday.

Isolated thunder squalls and hailstorms have been forecast over Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim on Thursday and over Assam and Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday and Friday.

Meanwhile, during the last 24 hours ending Thursday morning said that widespread rain or snow occurred over Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand and scattered over Jammu and Kashmir.

Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers has also occurred over Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and east Rajasthan.

It was scattered over Punjab, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and isolated over Bihar and north Madhya Pradesh.

Minimum temperatures fell by 1 to 3 deg Celsius over Punjab, Haryana,Rajasthan, west Uttar Pradesh and north Madhya Pradesh. The lowest minimum temperature of 9.0°C was recorded at Erinpura Road (Rajasthan) in the plains of the country.

Satellite pictures showed convective clouds over parts of western Himalayan region and Uttar Pradesh.

Minimum temperatures are expected to fall by 2 to 4 deg Celsius over northwest and adjoining central India during the next three days, the IMD outlook said.

7pm, S-W Srilanka continues to get afternoon showers ... http://ow.ly/i/8eVp

Meanwhile moisture push from S. Bay is slowly moving in N-W direction towards S-E peninsula... http://ow.ly/i/8eVp

7pm, W.D will move over Assam and Arunachal tonight.... http://ow.ly/i/8eVp

7pm, W.D is travelling fast .. now it's clear over W. Nepal and now over Sikkim .. http://ow.ly/i/8eVp

Due to the passing W.D... central Uttar Pradesh is also getting some rain

RT @cycloneupdate: Australia :: Darwin has recorded more than 400mm of rain since yesterday. TCCarlos

12pm, The active W.D is well and truly over Nepal and Uttarakand ... http://ow.ly/i/8emp

RT @jendelgadocnn: Three tropical cyclones spinning in the Indian Ocean. Will talk more about the systems with @rosemaryCNN in the next hour

Gujarat :: Unseasonal rains have farmers worried ... http://ow.ly/3XiKA

RT @rajugana: @weatherofindia, Baroda 9.10am, Surprising unseasonal drizzles yesterday night.. however, today it is sunny, clear skies.

Mumbai cloudy to overcast with light drizzle in some parts on Wednesday. currently 23c at 9.00 am.