Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Chennai - from 8:30pm till now 11:35pm violent thunder storms still roaming in and around city. Still having lightning and thunder !
Chennai - after the sea breeze got cut just after the 1st round, a strong t.shower moved in from s-w.
Chennai - Heavy rain started just now 9:12pm in Pallavaram zone
RT @spica_shylu: Lightning streaks illuminating Chennai's deep and dark horizons..likely to rain any minute now...
Chennai - 1st round of T.showers over city center has moved away into Sea. Now 8:28pm a super T.shower is over Sriperampudur and moving East
Chennai - Sea breeze has stopped so the present showers will Die where-ever they are !!

Overall rain deficit stays at one per cent


The continuing lean patch in Orissa and interior peninsula has brought central India back under a ‘token' rain deficit of one per cent.
The overall deficit for the country as a whole too has been maintained at one per cent over the past week or so.

RAINS FOR WEST

On Tuesday, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that the land-based monsoon trough would remain near to its normal position over the next two or three days.
The US National Centres for Environmental Prediction saw the possibility of rain flare-ups over west-central India as also east-central India during the week starting Tuesday.
Widespread rains have been forecast along the west coast as well during this period.
Meanwhile, the 24 hours ending Tuesday morning have witnessed widespread rainfall over Uttarakhand, Konkan, Goa, coastal Karnataka and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

WEATHER WARNING

It was fairly widespread over the eastern parts with Bihar, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, the Northeastern States and Rayalaseema, along with Kerala in the southwest, accounting for the most.
The rains were scattered over Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, east Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gangetic West Bengal, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu and isolated over Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, west Madhya Pradesh and Orissa.
A weather warning issued by the IMD and valid for the next two days said that isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall would batter Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

MORE FOR WEST

On Wednesday, it would be isolated heavy over Bihar, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Meanwhile, east Rajasthan and west Madhya Pradesh are expected to witness escalated rainfall activity from Wednesday, the IMD said. This is more or less is in agreement with the US agency's forecast.
A short-term outlook until Friday spoke about the possibility of fairly widespread rain or thundershowers over central and east India, the Northeastern States, Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and along the west coast.
A longer term outlook valid until Sunday said that fairly widespread rain or thundershowers would occur over many parts of the country outside west Rajasthan and south interior peninsular India where it may be isolated
RT @moponin: "Avoid plastic bags" - Carry your own bag and say NO to plastic bags, we are sure that this has to be said in Anna Hazare's way
RT @grajagrajagraja: @weatherofindia
rain in chindatripet egmore in chennai (7:06pm)
Chennai - another T.shower has formed just E.of Poonamalle and moving East towards S-W suburbs of Chennai
Chennai - 6:48pm, a Heavy shower has broken out over Chennai city .. it's localized so far and slowly moving E-N-E towards sea
RT @vikramgee: Its raining cats and dogs in nungambakkam and not a drop in nandanam...just 3km away...that's chennai for u!
RT @drjagadesh: @weatherofindia it started raining in Chetpet chennai ..
RT @rajugana: Baroda 5.30pm, Massive thunderstorm crossing with heavy rain at the moment a pic http://ping.fm/IUzv4
Expanding the foursquare Specials platform ... http://ow.ly/6bpMK
Chennai - Sea breeze is present but not that strong now 5:46pm
Chennai - Today as well T. showers expected, we had GOOD cloud formation till 3pm. Temp max was 34.6 C (2:01pm)
Afternoon showers for Andhra and N.Tamilnadu coast to continue till 31-Aug... may peak around 31-Aug ... http://ow.ly/i/gcIq
After 24hrs, heavy showers for entire S-W peninsula to start again from 30-Aug.
After 24hrs, showers over N-W India and S-W peninsula may take a break for 2 to 3 days.
Heavy showers for N-W Maharastra, S-E Gujarat, N.Maharastra coast to continue even till 31-Aug
Around 28/29-Aug, a strong circulation is expected over Central India.
Monsoon LOW over N-W India and Central Pakistan is showing signs of weakening ... this is expected around August end.
Monsoon is likely to remain active over parts of northwest India during next 24 hours, over central
India and west coast for next 2­-3 days
Today a circulation can be seen over N-W Bay along N.Orissa .. http://ow.ly/i/gcGO
RT @rajugana: @weatherofindia Baroda 10.05am, Dark and fully overcast sky, but no rain so far today.

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