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Monday, September 29, 2008
Some Rain facts for september (Chennai)
Monthly average = 109 mm
High temp = 38.9 C (19.09.1883)
Low temp = 20.6 C (15.09.1884)
Rain single day = 150.9 mm (30.09.1984)
Total rain = 279.7 mm (1897)
High temp = 38.9 C (19.09.1883)
Low temp = 20.6 C (15.09.1884)
Rain single day = 150.9 mm (30.09.1984)
Total rain = 279.7 mm (1897)
Almost at the end of SW monsoon
Now that the SW-monsoon air current has almost stopped.
Chennai has began to suffer from high humidity and sultry afternoons.
Some days we will have Electric showers if late afternoons or evenings.
For another 10 days the weather will be like this after that we can see the signs of Northeast monsoon.
I'm expecting a MORE than NORMAL north-east monsoon.
It might start at around 10-Oct-2008.
We have had good rains in all non-seasonal months (June to September).
September average rainfall is 109 mm and now it has recorded 121.00 mm
Chennai has began to suffer from high humidity and sultry afternoons.
Some days we will have Electric showers if late afternoons or evenings.
For another 10 days the weather will be like this after that we can see the signs of Northeast monsoon.
I'm expecting a MORE than NORMAL north-east monsoon.
It might start at around 10-Oct-2008.
We have had good rains in all non-seasonal months (June to September).
September average rainfall is 109 mm and now it has recorded 121.00 mm
Friday, September 12, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Wettest seasons in chennai - records
Jan-Feb
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213mm = year 2000
60.2mm = year 2008
51mm = year 2004
Mar-May
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198mm = year 2004
166.6mm = year 2008
114mm = year 2005
Jun-sep
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677mm = year 2007
485mm = year 2001
442mm = year 2000
oct-dec
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2108mm = year 2005
1079mm = year 2001
985mm = year 2002
Overall
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2566mm = year 2005
1668mm = year 2001
1402mm = year 2002
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213mm = year 2000
60.2mm = year 2008
51mm = year 2004
Mar-May
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198mm = year 2004
166.6mm = year 2008
114mm = year 2005
Jun-sep
----------
677mm = year 2007
485mm = year 2001
442mm = year 2000
oct-dec
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2108mm = year 2005
1079mm = year 2001
985mm = year 2002
Overall
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2566mm = year 2005
1668mm = year 2001
1402mm = year 2002
Rainfall stats for Chennai during Summer & SW monsoon-08
Mar-07 = 0mm (0%)
Mar-08 = 165mm (5500%)
Apr-07 = 0.4mm (1%)
Apr-08 = 0mm (0%)
May-07 = 0.2mm (0%)
May-08 = 1.6mm (3%)
Jun-07 = 94mm (174%)
Jun-08 = 125.2mm (232%)
Jul-07 = 249.2mm (254%)
Jul-08 = 29.4mm (30%)
As you can see the trend is like... Summer showers are getting lower, so hot and dry.
If showers occur that is heavy and squally.
These features are of desert.
Good thing is Chennai is getting more rain from South-west monsoon.
Mar-08 = 165mm (5500%)
Apr-07 = 0.4mm (1%)
Apr-08 = 0mm (0%)
May-07 = 0.2mm (0%)
May-08 = 1.6mm (3%)
Jun-07 = 94mm (174%)
Jun-08 = 125.2mm (232%)
Jul-07 = 249.2mm (254%)
Jul-08 = 29.4mm (30%)
As you can see the trend is like... Summer showers are getting lower, so hot and dry.
If showers occur that is heavy and squally.
These features are of desert.
Good thing is Chennai is getting more rain from South-west monsoon.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
"Monsoon" poem
Oyster-tongue, mangrove maw, the river's raw
sour breath, its moist air encumbered with mud,
mad with waiting, with grief, ready now to shed
upwards its uncoiling of earth's dry dirt-thirst,
ready to exhale the season's held-in vertigo,
so every fur and scurry must pause in a pose
of praises and prayer,
as the safe-sided contours of Kerala blur
to a dazed stillness before the chaos of wind;
in the small rain something fierce stirs
the river's grim, single-minded currents, furrowed
by history's keel, trawled by the spinning sleepers
fallen to its revolving arms - even the changeful
river knows this change will turn vast systems
awry - then the true rain begins: random power,
endowed with shower of bounty, whips wind,
shreds vine, cracks bark, mangosteen, jackfruit,
slaps the baby palm, uproots lemon and tapioca,
flattens the cowering tufts of pineapple, then douses
the world in torrents of self-cycled water, maddened
by sea-rhythm and pounding heartless thud
for unclocked hours, a constant torment of deluge
slow on the green land, the river, the annihilated air
- snakeholes flooded, monkey and woodpecker
mute, cats made fearful, cattle clustered -
the houses funnel a rush of worried water,
water plumes through its own wet world, fierce
in its dream of water, and water made flesh by water,
a perfect craze of water, the mother of water,
of water creatures born from the water in this line.
sour breath, its moist air encumbered with mud,
mad with waiting, with grief, ready now to shed
upwards its uncoiling of earth's dry dirt-thirst,
ready to exhale the season's held-in vertigo,
so every fur and scurry must pause in a pose
of praises and prayer,
as the safe-sided contours of Kerala blur
to a dazed stillness before the chaos of wind;
in the small rain something fierce stirs
the river's grim, single-minded currents, furrowed
by history's keel, trawled by the spinning sleepers
fallen to its revolving arms - even the changeful
river knows this change will turn vast systems
awry - then the true rain begins: random power,
endowed with shower of bounty, whips wind,
shreds vine, cracks bark, mangosteen, jackfruit,
slaps the baby palm, uproots lemon and tapioca,
flattens the cowering tufts of pineapple, then douses
the world in torrents of self-cycled water, maddened
by sea-rhythm and pounding heartless thud
for unclocked hours, a constant torment of deluge
slow on the green land, the river, the annihilated air
- snakeholes flooded, monkey and woodpecker
mute, cats made fearful, cattle clustered -
the houses funnel a rush of worried water,
water plumes through its own wet world, fierce
in its dream of water, and water made flesh by water,
a perfect craze of water, the mother of water,
of water creatures born from the water in this line.
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