Chennai - second round of heavy electric shower now 10:35pm over Polichalur zone

#chennai - 9:20pm, More T.showers seen over West, W-N-W at around 45km to 100km from city.

RT @aash_tvm: Raining heavy at #Trivandrum #kerala @weatherofindia (7:53pm)

RT @danish_shk: Little of rain and mumbai full of traffic http://t.co/YS7NnlKK (6:37pm)

RT @9786787: @weatherofindia just stated to pour in Aminjikarai #chennai 6;05pm

RT @drjagadesh: @weatherofindia It is raining in Chetpet, #Chennai now (6:11pm)

#chennai - A heavy electric shower is now 6:21pm crossing City .. and moving towards Sea.

Chennai - heavy rain now 5:55pm over pallavaram zone

#chennai - 5pm, entire horizon from S-W to N-W is darted with T.showers now... But the systems are showing very less movement to East.

#chennai - 4:10pm, conditions are good for a T.shower. Already T.showers seen over W-S-W from city at around 60km from city.

#Delhi - good rain expected for city from today till 17/18-Sep.

#Mumbai - after 15-Sep almost NO rain forecast till 21-Sep.

#Kolkata - Good rain expected from today till 15/16-Sep ..!

For next 2/3 days.. heavy & widespread rain for entire E,E-central India, Uttarpradesh, All along Himalayan foothills .. http://ow.ly/i/VL78

Very heavy & widespread rain forecast for E.Nepal, N.Bengal, Sikkim and North N-E states till 16/17-Sep.. http://ow.ly/i/VL7L

For Sikkim & N.Bengal heavy rains can extend upto 19-Sep !

As the monsoon axis has become strong, the scattered rain will continue for Haryana, Punjab, Himachal, Uttarakand & #Delhi till 17/18-Sep.

Latest COLA model suggests that Rain along entire S-W coast will be very less till 19-Sep.

Showers for N-W,N,N-E Tamilnadu, S,S-E. Karnataka and S.Andhra to continue beyond 19-Sep..!

#chennai - 3:38pm, Good sea breeze seen upto a height of 0.3km above sea. Preliminary T.cell formations witnessed over West, N-W.

Today, Monsoon axis is getting strong again !.. http://ow.ly/i/VKQl

Offshore trough along S-W coast is weak and only seen strong along S.Karnataka coast .. http://ow.ly/i/VKQU

Offshore trough along S-W coast is expected to become strong on 17,18 & 19-Sep ... some escalation in rains expected along S-W coast.

Next N-W Bay LOW is expected on 18-Sep and it'll be a weak system.

Today, a low level circulation can be seen over S.Uttarpradesh .. http://ow.ly/i/VKUE

For next 3 days till 16-Sep, the West end of monsoon axis will drift South while the East end will remain titled North.. http://ow.ly/i/VKVX

The last of the UAC can be seen exiting W.Gujarat & drifting into N.Arabian sea ... http://ow.ly/i/VKWC

Till 20-Sep, No significant UAC expected over India,Bay & Arabian sea..but on 16-Sep a 500hpa anti-cyclone will pop over E.Gujarat & S-W M.P

S-W monsoon withdrawal ... By 20-Sep, 200hpa jet stream to become westerlies upto 25N latitude.

#chennai - Today from morning, the low level winds are from East and S-Westerly has also stopped ! Upper level winds are from W-N-W.

RT @hellosysadmn: Heavy but beautiful rain in #Kochi. #kerala #rain (1:49pm)

1pm, As expected Heavy rain seen over N-E.Madhyapradesh, S.Uttarpradesh (slowly it'll spread to most of U.P), S.Bihar.. http://ow.ly/i/VKre

1pm, Heavy rain also seen over Bengal, Jharkand, S.Uttarakand and South N-E states .. less rain along S-W coast .. http://ow.ly/i/VKre

RT @rajugana: @weatherofindia Bangalore 10.20am, Clear skies, Bright sunshine, dry and windy. No rain for the past few days.

#chennai - 1:23pm, so far having a Bright, Hot & Humid day. Records 34 deg C at 1pm. Low cloud formations seen.

After 4pm, High Vertical.V expected over S,S-E.Karantaka, N,N-E.Tamilnadu, #chennai and S,S-central Andhra.. Heavy rain possible !

Heaviest Rains of the year parts of West Bengal

Southwest monsoon been active over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal after nearly two months. Heavy to very heavy rainfall occurred at a few places with extremely heavy fall at isolated places over Jalpaiguri district of Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and heavy falls at isolated places over the districts of Darjeeling & Coochbehar of Sub-Himalayan West Bengal. The following are the heavy rainfall ending 8.30 am on 12.09.2012

Rainfall in mm

Gazoldoba - 396
Bagrakote - 310
Nagrakata - 162
Murti - 160
Majhian - 118
Gyalsing - 110
Neora - 110
Bagdogra - 106
Dinhata - 100
Mathabhanga - 100