Low LATITUDINAL westerlies and SWM

 (a) As rightly pointed out by IWM Shri. RAKESH , the Power House of SWM in SIO and is with unusual strength and lay centered about 4000 km south of Kanyakumari.

(b) Low LATITUDINAL westerlies is prominent below Kanyakumari and any LOW /WML / or trough formed in the prevailing westerlies close to Kumari may bring rain for Tamil nadu.

(c) This sort of LOW /WML will move in West-NWly direction.

[d] Similarly the veering westerlies sometimes become as descending air and may sometime cause FIRES etc at few locations.