We have decided to move the Kea blog to the kwschennai domain itself. No new topics will be created in this Keaweather.net domain henceforth. This domain will be accessible until end of October. Please change your bookmark to kwschennai.com/blog to access the blog ..read more

Southwest Monsoon has advanced into some parts of north Arabian sea. Conditions are favourable for advancement of SWM into some more parts of north Arabian Sea, Gujarat State, remaining parts of Maharashtra, some more parts of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, remaining parts of Odisha, West Bengal and some parts of  Jharkhand and Bihar during next 48 hour. Monsoon showers continues to drench coastal Karnataka and Kerala. Scattere ..read more

Active Monsoon conditions over the core monsoon regions has resulted in the lack of proper thunderstorms over parts Tamilnadu. This trend is likely to continue over the next few days. This phenomenon is due to fast paced dry westerlies in the atmosphere from the Arabian Sea which reach speeds upto 50-60kmph at the respective heights. These westerlies prevent storms from towering resulting in a subdued phase. It also prevents the Sea breeze from entering the land resulting in hot temperatures even after dusk. TN thunderstorms are likely to return post 20th June. Until then warm and hot weather ..read more

Monsoon winds continue to batter the west coast of Indian Peninsula resulting in multiple rain gauges across the west coast furiously ticking off centuries of rainfall quantum and a few double centuries too.  Down below Tamilnadu would remain dry today as the pace of mid level westerlies would prevent the development of any significant Thunderstorms. But districts near Western ghats eg. Ooty, Coimbatore, Theni, Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari especially areas in windward side as usual would have plenty of rains ..read more

Tamil Nadu got widespread heavy Thunderstorms for past two day’s. Now time for SWM to get active over Kerala and Adjoining West Coast. Thunderstorms to slow down over Most parts Of Tamil Nadu, while in West Tamil Nadu, places situated close to Western Ghats will receive moderate Monsoon Rains ..read more

Temperature to reduce slightly in Tamil Nadu as South West Monsoon sets in. Coastal Tamil Nadu will see slightly above normal temperatures whereas normal temperatures expected over Interiors of Tamil Nadu.  IMD has announced onset of Southwest Monsoon over South Kerala yesterday ..read more

After a short break, thunderstorms are set to return over North Tamil Nadu including Chennai City. Strengthening of convergence, increase in moisture over PBL layer will bring back thunderstorms over North Tamil Nadu from 30th of May. Initially the rain will be concentrated over interior districts of North Tamil Nadu, and will gradually spread over coastal areas too from 31st may. As there is no proper synoptic support, these rains will be completely convective based and sea breeze induced one. So it won’t be widespread. Scattered rains likely. Chennai city will see party cloudy skies with sca ..read more

Hot weather conditions prevailed over most parts of Tamilnadu in the last 2 days with Mercury crossing 40°C in a few places. Chennai Nungambakkam recorded back to back days of 40°C+ temperatures. Summer hasn’t lived upto the expectations in 2021. The season (March-April-May) has seen and Average 60 mms of rainfall in few stations. India’s saviour, The Southwest Monsoon 2021 is all set to kick start from the end of this month. Most parts of coastal and ghat areas of Kerala are likely to witness Monsoonal downpours. Wet weather or rather respite from heat is likely from the First week of June fo ..read more

Post the landfall of the Extremely severe cyclonic storm Tauktae over Gujarat, the westerly winds have strengthened over entire southern peninsula which helped in the onset of the great Indian monsoon over the Andaman and Nicobar islands a couple of days back. An Upper air circulation which was extending till 5kms ASL developed into a low pressure area over east central BOB. Due to the wind convergence associated with the UAC, NTN and SAP including Chennai saw very good thunderstorms that provided the much needed moderate to rather heavy rains after a long wait which indeed was a respite from ..read more

The Arabian sea branch is all ready to host the first system of 2021 of the Indian Ocean cyclone season. The system is more likely to become a Cyclone in the next 72-96 hours. As a result, Kerala and Karnataka are likely to experience heavy to extremely heavy rainfall from 14th of this month. The consensus on the track among numerical models is yet to be decided. But slowly patterns indicate the system to integrate much closer to the Indian coastline and the feeder bands are likely to result in the heavy downpours over Kerala and Coastal Karnataka. This system was much feared to affect the flo ..read more