Tuesday, January 10, 2012

chennai - Due to moisture push from N-N-E.. showers possible on 11,12,13-Jan.. http://ow.ly/i/ps6W
Present moisture along S-E peninsula coast will drift SOuth from today and will last till 14/15-Jan..
Present moisture along S-E peninsula coast will last another 24hrs, before it's blow away by strong N-W winds.. http://ow.ly/i/ps46
Till 12-Jan.. isolated showers forecast for S. Kerala and S. Extreme Tamilnadu
Next strong W.D will approach N-W India on evening of 14-Jan.. till then COLD and strong N-westerlies will blow,. http://ow.ly/i/ps3k
Showers over N-E states will stop from 14-Jan
7:30pm, W.D has vanished and moisture along S-E peninsula coast has started to drift South.. http://ow.ly/i/ps1w
Kolkata gets record January rain in 10 years ... http://ow.ly/8obdz

Monday, January 09, 2012

Big pattern changes in winter coming? Arctic Oscillation Flips to Negative


Austria Friday:  found itself buried under 4 feet of snow, creating chaos and disruption of traffic and power supply. Snowfall trapped some 15,000 tourists at ski resorts on the Arlberg Mountain. High winds are also whipping the nation.  An important rail line that connects Vienna and Innsbruck with western Austria and Switzerland was to be closed until Sunday. Two rail lines that connect western Austria with Germany were also closed.
India Friday: Hailstorm in parts of New Delhi and Amritsar. 3 feet snow closed down Kashmir's main highway, and also knocked out power and telephone lines, plunging most of state powerless and cut-off from rest of the country. Temperatures in Leh plunged to minus 18.8 deg C.  Many parts of Himachal Pradesh received snowfall, including surprisingly low altitude areas of the state. Records tumbled as many of these areas received snow after three decades or more. Kangra received snow after a gap of a whopping 67 years. Several villages of Pathankot and Hoshiarpur districts experienced snowfall on Saturday morning, the first in recorded history.

These two events may look unconnected but they need not.  They occurred the same time as the AO flipped to its weakly negative mode.


chennai - isolated showers possible on 13/14/15-Jan.. due to moisture drifting South from N-W Bay, Orissa.. http://ow.ly/i/png6