At the end of SW monsoon - 08

We (Chennai) is at the end of SW monsoon.
Now it's clear skies with patchy clouds around and humid days and mild nights.

Still there is low level SW air current. And no sign of North-easter yet.
Hoping to see the North-East monsoon around 10th to 15th of October.
Usually north-east sets in around 15th in North tamilnadu and around 22nd in south tamilnadu.

This year's north-east will also be a long one, like that of Last year - 2007.

Our next post will be a summary of South-west - 2008.

Typhoon "Jangmi"

Must see video

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)

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

Hurricane "IKE" tracking

Live hurricane ike tracking visuals

Southwest monsson - youtube

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

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.

Monsoon arrival from Flickr.com

Monsoon pics from "flickr.com"