Wednesday, April 17, 2013


Welcome to our 2nd Meet, bigger and Better this time :-)
Vagarians Meeting on Friday 19th. Venue: Cafe Coffee Day, Korum Mall, Panch Pakhadi, Thane (West)...Time: 5 pm...open to all Vagarians. 


Flash Forecast for Thursday and Friday:
Thursday 18th:
Very heavy rains likely in Western Bangladesh. Strong Winds and hailstorms likely. 
Adjoining Central W.Bengal can get strong thunderstorms. 
Kolkata vicinity could be lashed by heavy thunderstorm on Thursday. Strong winds likely.
Light rains likely in some parts of Central Saurashtra. Clouds developing around Surat. 

Friday 19th: Heavy Thunderstorms in Bangladesh and adjoining Meghalaya. Gangetic w.Bengal can get thunderstorms. 
Kolkata will see thunderstorms with squally winds.

Gujarat region will be cloudy. Eastern parts of state will receive showers, with heavier falls in the Ahmadabad-Vadodra region. Surat will be cloudy with showers in some parts. Bharuch too will get light rains. Light rains possible in Rajkot and adjoining Central Saurashtra.

Nasik district and Vidharbha in Maharashtra can get thundershowers in the evening.

Thundery developments will be seen in the Eastern skies of Mumbai. Outer townships will get partly cloudy in the evening with thunder clouds in the East over the Ghats. 

In Pakistan, fairly heavy rains are likely in the region North/NE of Karachi. Hyderabad will be cloudy with light showers. Rest South Eastern Sindh will be cloudy.

4 comments:

Abhijit Modak said...

Some cities max temp for today dated 17-04-2013:

Mumbai max temp for today : Colaba 32.7c, Santacruz 31.5c & Vagaries 32c

Pune 34.8c
Nagpur 43.2c
Solapur 40c
Akola 39.9c
Aurangabad 36.8c
Nashik 34c
Panji 32.2c
Ratnagiri 31c

Delhi max temp for today : S 'Jung 37.1c, Palam 38.3c.

Rajkot max temp 39.8c & Surat max temp 31c for today.

Kolkata max temp for today : Alipur 35.3c, Dum Dum 36c

Chennai max temp for today : NGBKM 36.5c, MNBKM 38.7c

Kodaikanal max temp 21c today.

Bangalore max temp 36.5c today

Rajan Alexander said...

Hi Rajesh. The pre-monsoon low is simply not one of the factors, it is a key factor. It does not look a vigorous start to the monsoon unless we experience some heat wave conditions at least by end of the month

In your analysis you are not tracking IOD. Skymet predicted below normal rains in August based on negative IOD. The IOD which is now weakly positive is progressively projected to turn strongly negative by September by most international models.

ENSO similarly which is neutral is projected to be neutral throughout JJAS period though tending to be in the positive side.

We need to critique Skymet. The IMD came out strongly critiquing Skymet, even questioning whether they have any dynamic models at all as claimed. Today, the South Asian Monsoon Forum is meeting and they will come out with their forecast. A week from now, the IMD.

So we need to come out with an alternate forecast pretty soon.

Atul P Naik said...

Minimum Temperatures running below normal for Goa last two/three days. Today min recorded was 22C, nearly 3 degrees below normal according to IMD

Rajesh said...

Rajan: No Rajan, I have not overlooked the IOD.
You must have read in my MW-1, that at present we are not chasing the Quantum of rain, only arriving at the Date of Onset.
We will initially follow up for the date of onset. This I have explained earlier.
Yes, meanwhile, in my data, the monitoring and follow up of other parameters continue...
And like i mentioned, it is very eraly to forecast the September situation from april...

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