Sunday, June 30, 2013

#Chennai - lots of T.showers seen over S-S-W from city at 60,70,80km. 7pm, Showers seen just south of Chengelpet.

India's Wettest Places - Walakkad, Kerala - Series No.1

Whenever people in India ask for wettest / Rainiest places they only know Cherrapunji or Mawsynaram or Agumbe. In these weekly series, you will come to various places which i have identified to be wettest places of India. This series will be published every weekly. If you are fan of Heavy Rains and want to know more than Cherrapunji. Please Read it. Its only a compilation of data from various sources / articles / research materials.

Walakkad which it has crossed 9000 mm rainfall in 5 years of the 12 years available rainfall data is the first in the long series.

 Dhar et al (1978) carried out a study ot the heavy rainfall stations in India. For the purpose of the study, stations with mean annual raintall of 5000 mm were considered as heavy rainfall stations. Of the total 14 stations across India, Only two were from KeraIa namely Neeriamangalam (5880 mm) and Peermade (5000 mm). The rainfall data was available only for less number of years. Over the years the averages have caught up with these two stations and their averages have fallen less than 5000 mm considerably. But rain gauges were installed at many other locations which were experiencing very heavy rains during the monsoons.With the data obtained and analysed, these stations were experiencing more rainfall than Agumbe (7640 mm) called as Cherrapunji of South India. One such place is Silent Valley, where rainfall data is available for Walakkad, Pochipara, Silent Valley, Neelikkal and Sairandhri.

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http://tamilnaduweatherman.blogspot.in/2011/09/silent-valley-wettest-place-in-kerala.html
Evening showers expected for S.Karnataka, S.Andhra, N,N-E.Tamilnadu during next 3 days.

12:30pm, Rain seen over S,central Uttarpradesh, N-E.Madhyapradesh, Jharkhand, S.Bengal and coastal Odisha.. http://ow.ly/i/2uf3W 
During next 24 / 48hrs.. Heavy widespread rain for Most of E,central,N.Uttarpradesh, N,N-E,E.Madhyapradesh, Chatisgarh, Bihar.

During next 36hrs, Heavy rain expected to be focussed over N,N-E,E.Madhyapradesh and into E,central Uttarpradesh.. http://ow.ly/i/2ueUZ 

Heavy and widespread rain for most of Maharastra coast, #Mumbai, #Goa and coastal Karnataka .. http://ow.ly/i/2ueW5 

During next 18hrs, some rain expected to persist over Punjab, Kashmir, Himachal and Haryana!

Heavy rain to continue for Sikkim, N.Bengal and North zones of N-E states  during next 2 days !

Scattered rain expected for Odisha, N,N-E.Andhra and into Chatisgarh in next 2 days.

During next 2 days, Less rain expected for central,S. Kerala but N.Kerala is expected to get more scattered rain.

S,central.Bengal is also expected to get scattered rain with medium intensity during next 3 days.
Today, low level circulation is seen over the eastern end of axis over N,central.Bengal, Bihar and E.Uttarpradesh .. http://ow.ly/i/2ueIT 

The upper level circulation is seen over N.Bay and into S.Bengal... another circulation over E.Uttarpradesh ..  http://ow.ly/i/2ueKm 

In 24hrs, the low level circulation is expected to consolidate and move (W-N-W) along the axis into E.Uttarpradesh.. http://ow.ly/i/2ueMd 

In 48hrs, 2 upper level circulation, one to move into S.Odisha,N-E.Andhra coast, another over N-E.Madhyapradesh..  http://ow.ly/i/2ueNd 

Today, a weak upper level circulation is seen along N.Maharastra coast, this is expected to persist for another 48hrs http://ow.ly/i/2ueON 

Present weak offshore trough along S-W coast is expected deepen during next 2 or 3 days.. HEAVY widespread rain ahead http://ow.ly/i/2ueQL 
RT @aknarendranath: Put off yatra, evacuate pilgrims, Met said, but govt sat on warning - The Times of India http://t.co/0rdQkedYy3 @weatherofindia 

RT @aknarendranath: Near-perfect June monsoon till now.
http://t.co/k8iAz8riQ7

Rainfall in and around Chennai

in mm ending 8.30 am 30.06.2013

North Chennai was battered.

Ponneri - 100
Uthiramerur - 60
Ellapuram - 44
Cholavaram - 33
Ennore - 32
Madurantakam - 31
Redhills - 28
RK Pet - 20
Kalavai - 15
Sholinghur - 13
Cheyyar - 12
Kolapakkam - 11
Gummidipundi - 10
Thiruvalangadu - 10
Thamaraipakkam - 10
Chennai AP - 9
Madhavaram - 7
Mailam - 7
Chennai - 6
Kancheepuram - 6
Tiruttani - 6
Cheyyur - 4
Taramani - 3
Katupakkam - 3