Today's weather summary from Davangere, Bangalore, Badlapur, Chennai

Davangere - 6pm, "Very cool and cloudy day,but only a couple of drizzles ,no strong showers."

Bangalore - 7:50pm, "No rain as of now".

Badlapur - "on/off showers here. Today till 8.30am = 20mm. And till 7.30pm now it is 12mm"

#Chennai - 7:45pm, good sharp showers lashing N,N-W parts of city and moving towards Sea.

6pm, Sharp showers nearing W,N-W suburbs of Chennai

#Chennai - Medium intensity showers approaching W,N-W suburbs of city, expected to reach in another 30 min.

Showers popping near #Chennai

#Chennai - 4:30pm, Rain seen over W-N-W,N-W from city at around 100,80km. Showers seen into S.Andhra!

1pm, Rain seen over most of Madhyapradesh except over S,W. Showers seen all along S-W coast, N,central Bay active http://ow.ly/i/2uB4I 

#HOT at 1:30pm, #Delhi = 37 C, Amristar, Jaipur, Thiruchirapalli = 36 C, Ahmedabad = 35 C.

Kolkata, Hyderabad, Patna = 31 C. Bangalore = 29 C and windy from West. 

#Chennai - 1:30pm, Temperature around 35 C, Clear skies from morning till now. Breeze from W has almost stopped, signs of early Sea breeze !

RT @sudhanrajagopal: Heavy rain affects monsoon tourism in Kerala - The Times of India .. http://ow.ly/mxc79 

Today, N-E.Tamilnadu, Chennai, S.Andhra coast can expect another round of evening sharp showers with Thunder.

Metttur Dam up from 19 ft to 42 ft in 4 days.

 Inflow continues even though catchment areas are not receiving any rains.

1.7.13 - inflow 33500 cusecs,  level 42 ft, storage 13200 mcft

30.6.13 - inflow 38500 cusecs,  level 36 ft, storage 10400 mcft

29.6.13 - inflow 38000 cusecs,  level 29 ft, storage 7200 mcft

28.6.13 - inflow 9500 cusecs,  level 19 ft, storage 4000 mcft

Top Driest Places in India Since June 1,2013 - All from Tamil Nadu...

1.Karur - 0mm
2.Pamban & Dharmapuri - 1mm
3.Tiruchi - 4mm
4.Tuticorin - 5mm
5.Palayamkottai - 15mm

#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.

More on

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.