mumbai weather at 9 pm

weather dry and partly cloudy, rains seem to have dried up for the moment

Chennai - Heavy rain will skirt across entire extreme S,S-W Chennai in another 15 to 30 min... rain will travel from west to east. 5:41pm

RT @kmathan: @weatherofindia yes its raining in chengalpattu... thunders too.. (5:02pm)

RT @kmathan: @weatherofindia Heavy cloud cover at chengalpattu..ll rain any minute now (4:35pm)

Chennai - Heavy cloud formation seen over S-W of chennai around 70km... and very heavy rain reported there.

Monsoon run complete amid ‘La Nina rebound' cues ... http://bit.ly/o1FOF8

Monsoon moves into Pakistan as on 10-Jul-2011 ... http://bit.ly/nWfO0J

Monsoon run complete amid ‘La Nina rebound' cues

India Meteorological Department (IMD) has declared that the southwest monsoon managed to cover the entire country by Saturday, at least a week ahead of schedule.

In a fortuitous coincidence, latest update from the Climate Prediction Centre (CPC) of the US National Weather Services seemed to suggest the re-emergence of a monsoon-friendly La Nina in the east equatorial Pacific later this year.

Over the last couple of weeks, forecasts created by the Climate Forecast System of the National Centres for Environmental Prediction have begun to indicate the re-emergence of La Nina during northern hemisphere autumn, the CPC said.

Combined with the recent weakening of the positive ocean anomalies and the lingering La Niña state of the atmosphere, the possibility of a return to La Nina has increased over the past month.

However, it added the caveat that most other models and all multi-model forecasts have been predicting ‘neutral' (conditions), suggesting neither La Nina nor El Nino, during the season ahead.

Out of more than 20 such forecasts monitored by the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University, only six plumped for the ‘La Nina' option, it said.

Back home, the monsoon ran ahead of time to cover the entire mass after a ‘pulse' from the Bay of Bengal ended the ‘break monsoon' phase that had manifested during the first week of July.

Break monsoon is the term referred to the inevitable pause that the monsoon allows itself after a hectic run that, in the instant case, lasted almost the whole of June.

This pulse had also triggered the formation of a low-pressure area over land in east India. It travelled west for a day, before losing most of the sting over northwest Madhya Pradesh.

But it had also helped consolidate the easterly monsoon flows by coercing the all-important land-based monsoon trough across northwest-to-southeast India to revert to its normal position to sustain the flows.

Chennai - now 3:20pm having good Sea breeze from E-S-E and temp is at 34 deg C, before that temp touched a max of 37.2 C (1:56pm)

Monsoon moves into Pakistan as on 10-Jul-2011

Rainfall map recorded till 8:30am of 11-Jul-2011

RT @rajugana: @weatherofindia Baroda 9.45, Monsoon magic!! a pic http://bit.ly/nhmfpu after wet weekend, its fresh & green everywhere!

RT @rajugana: @weatherofindia Baroda 1.48pm, Dark passing clouds, and it's raining now.. a pic http://t.co/r80Bzu8

Mumbai forecast for Today, 11-Jul-2011 ... http://bit.ly/oJMqOa

Not seeing a rosy picture today (Monday) for the predicted strengthening of the off-shore trough (west coast). Possibilities of this west coast trough gaining strength was seen earlier. But,due to the total fizzling out of the upper air trough, off shore trough will remain weak on Monday.
Hence, the Mumbai forecasr for Monday stands changed to sunny with few showers. Rain amounts 10 mms. Next forecast tonite.
The scenario in the Bay remains hopeful for a low by tomorrow.