Easterly wave may bring rain to most of South Peninsula

Scattered to fairly widespread rain/thundershowers will arrive again to Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal, Kerala, Mahe and Lakshadweep in excess of the South Peninsula and possible maintain an powerful spell of rain and thundershowers as component of the revival of the North-East monsoon into the weekend and the following.

Far more geographical region than earlier expected might get impacted by the rain-laden easterly wave with the damp spell having extended in excess of the more substantial South Peninsula. Easterly waves move speedy and straight across the Bay of Bengal, and generally are recognised to target Tamil Nadu and Kerala, apart from Sri Lanka to the South.

 

Large falls for Tamil Nadu, Puducherry

India Meteorological Division (IMD) claimed this (Tuesday) morning that isolated significant falls are possible in excess of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal from Wednesday to Saturday. It also saw scope for further improve in the rainfall activity with the probability of significant to extremely significant falls lover Tamil Nadu on Sunday and Monday.

An extended IMD outlook claimed that the significant rain session might last till Tuesday, with fairly widespread to widespread rain/thundershowers in excess of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal, Kerala and Mahe isolated significant to extremely significant falls in excess of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal and scattered to fairly widespread in excess of Lakshadweep and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

Large weather for Sri Lanka, as well

Somewhere else, isolated rain/thundershowers are predicted in excess of South Interior Karnataka, Rayalseema, Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam. Sri Lanka to the South would also witness significant weather as is regular with easterly waves, with north-easterly winds in excess of the seas all over the island speeding up to of twenty-30 km/hr on Tuesday.

The Sri Lanka Meteorological Division claimed that wind speeds speed up to 40 km/hr at periods in excess of the seas extending from Trincomalee to Colombo via Jaffna, Mannar and Puttalam. The sea affliction together and off Trincomalee to Colombo via Jaffna, Mannar, and Puttalam will be ‘fairly rough’ (wave heights of eight-twenty ft) at periods.

The expected uptick in the fortunes of the North-East monsoon saw the Chennai bloggers get to the tweeting their variations on the evolving situation as follows:

Dry weather is expected to persist for the next 2-3 days in #TamilNadu followed by an easterly wave making a return, pushing away the dry air. #Delta and below will be the hotspot yet again while #Chennai has chance for light showers in isolated places.#Chennairains #NEM2020 pic.twitter.com/mwOaRlipZn

— Hrishi Jawahar (@jhrishi2) December 13, 2020

Upcoming easterly wave details:https://t.co/q0LQNOYGVL

— Chennai Weather-Raja Ramasamy (@chennaiweather) December 14, 2020

A brief post on this coming up this evening 🙏 https://t.co/o2qSwZORTU

— Chennai Weather Updates (@chennai_updates) December 14, 2020

#COMK #Weather Update for the day as moderate #Rains likely to return over Coastal #TamilNadu, particularly around delta districts. Isolated places between #Cuddalore & Vedaranyam could see heavy spells due to dryline #Thunderstorms. #NEM2020 #COMK https://t.co/o3oPD7aah3

— Chennai Rains (COMK) (@ChennaiRains) December 15, 2020

#Weather Models indicate Easterlies to slowly return from today over the Bay. This could get the #Rains to return over Coastal #TamilNadu for a few days starting tomorrow night / early Wednesday. The stretch between #Pondicherry & Delta may get the heavier spells. #COMK #NEM2020 pic.twitter.com/nc5TIvfMXU

— Chennai Rains (COMK) (@ChennaiRains) December 14, 2020