GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

BHARAT MAUSAM VIGYAN VIBHAG

INDIA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT

REGIONAL METEOROLOGICAL CENTRE, CHENNAI-600 006

WEEKLY WEATHER REPORT FOR TAMILNADU AND PUDUCHERRY FOR

THE WEEK ENDING  1ST   FEBRUARY  2012 /   12TH   MAGHA,   1933 (SAKA) 

SUMMARY OF WEATHER  

 

Week’s Rainfall :

 

Excess:           Ariyalur, Chennai, Cuddalore, Karur, Tiruvallur, Tiruchirapalli  districts and Karaikal.

 

Normal:          Coimbatore, Kanchipuram and Nagapattinam districts.

 

Deficient:        Dindigul, Ramanathapuram, Thanjavur districts and  Puducherry. 

 

Scanty:            Nilgiris, Sivaganga, Tirunelveli and Tiruvarur districts.

 

No Rain:         Dharmapuri, Erode, Kanyakumari, Krishnagiri, Madurai, Namakkal, Perambalur, Pudukottai, Salem, Theni,  Tirupur,  Tiruvannamalai, Toothukudi,  Vellore, Villupuram and Virudhunagar districts. 

 

The chief amounts of rainfall recorded in Centimetres are:

 

28.01.12: Sivagiri (dist Tirunelveli) 1.    

 

31.01.12: Jayamkondam (dist Ariyalur) 3, Sirkali (dist Nagapatinam) 2, Ponneri (dist Tiruvallur) 2, Anna University (dist Chennai) 2, Sethiyathope Anaicut (dist Cuddalore) 2, Chennai Meenambakkam  2 and Kattumannarkoil (dist Cuddalore) 1, Pullambadi (dist Tiruchirapalli) 1, Ariyalur 1 and Chidambaram (dist Cuddalore) 1.

 

01.02.12:  Grand Anaicut (Thanjavur) 1.

 

Season’s Rainfall for the period from 01.01.12 to 01.02.12:  

 

Excess:           Kanyakumari, Theni  and Virudhunagar districts.

 

Normal:          Tirunelveli district.

 

Deficient:        Ariyalur, Chennai,  Kanchipuram, Madurai, Nilgiris, Tiruvallur districts, Karaikal and Puducherry.

 

Scanty:        Coimbatore, Cuddalore, Dindigul, Erode, Karur, Nagapattinam, Namakkal, Pudukottai, Ramanathapuram, Sivaganga, Thanjavur, Tirupur,  Tiruchirapalli, Tiruvarur, Toothukudi, Vellore and Villupuram districts.

 

No Rain:         Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri, Perambalur, Salem and Tiruvannamalai districts. 

 

Chief Synoptic Features and its associated weather: 

 

Mainly dry air prevailed over the state from 26th to 30th January. An upper air cyclonic circulation/ trough lay over southwest Bay of Bengal off Srilanka coast and extended upto 2.1 Kilometres above sea level on 31st January and 1st February 2012.

 

            The minimum temperatures were appreciably below  normal at one or two places over North Tamilnadu on 26th , 27th, 30th January;  appreciably above normal at one or two places over North Tamilnadu on 28th, 29th , 31st January, 1st February and remained generally normal over rest of the state during the week.

 

Rainfall: Rainfall occurred at isolated places over the state on 27th, 28th, 30th, 31st January and 1st February. Mainly dry weather prevailed on 29th and dry weather on 26th January.

 

 

Regional Meteorological Centre,                                                  DR. S. R. RAMANAN

6, College Road, Chennai-6.                                                                  SCIENTIST ‘E’

Date: 03.02.12                                                            for Deputy Director General of Meteorology

 

 

 

RAINFALL STATEMENT 

 

Rainfall for the week ending

1st  February 2012

Seasonal rainfall for the period from 01.01.2012 

to  01.02.2012

Districts

Actual

(mm)

Normal (mm)

Departure (%)

Actual

(mm)

Normal

(mm)

Departure (%)

Ariyalur

10.5

1.3

708

10.5

21.2

-50

Chennai

5.9

2.4

147

17.0

22.1

-23

Coimbatore

0.6

0.7

-11

1.7

8.1

-79

Cuddalore

4.5

1.9

137

6.0

28.2

-79

Dharmapuri

0.0

1.0

-100

0.0

8.2

-100

Dindigul

0.4

0.9

-58

3.0

19.0

-84

Erode

0.0

0.7

-100

1.0

6.6

-85

Kanchipuram

1.5

1.5

-2

7.9

17.3

-54

Kanyakumari

0.0

4.1

-100

26.3

19.0

38

     Karaikal

4.4

2.2

100

31.1

53.3

-42

Karur

0.8

0.5

63

2.5

9.8

-75

Krishnagiri

0.0

0.2

-100

0.0

5.0

-100

Madurai

0.0

1.4

-100

10.8

14.2

-24

Nagapattinam

3.3

3.2

4

12.0

62.8

-81

Namakkal

0.0

0.4

-100

0.1

6.8

-98

Nilgiris

0.1

3.4

-97

18.1

24.2

-25

Perambalur

0.0

0.7

-100

0.0

13.2

-100

Pudukottai

0.0

0.7

-100

2.9

23.3

-88

Ramanathapuram

1.0

1.8

-43

5.0

33.1

-85

Salem

0.0

0.4

-100

0.0

8.6

-100

Sivaganga

0.3

1.0

-71

6.0

15.9

-62

Thanjavur

1.0

1.5

-35

2.0

26.9

-93

Theni

0.0

3.0

-100

25.8

16.7

54

Tirunelveli

0.9

3.4

-73

40.8

36.0

13

Tiruppur

0.0

0.4

-100

1.7

7.1

-77

Tiruvallur

2.6

1.2

118

8.3

18.0

-54

Tiruvannamalai

0.0

1.5

-100

0.0

15.1

-100

Tiruvarur

0.1

1.7

-95

0.5

40.9

-99

Toothukudi

0.0

2.6

-100

7.9

24.9

-68

Trichy

2.1

0.7

205

2.8

13.6

-80

Vellore

0.0

1.3

-100

3.4

8.5

-60

Villupuram

0.0

1.2

-100

7.3

18.5

-61

Virudhunagar

0.0

2.2

-100

23.0

18.9

22

Puducherry

1.0

1.3

-23

11.6

17.9

-35

Tamilnadu

0.7

1.4

-48

7.4

17.9

-59

Tamilnadu and

Puducherry

0.7

1.4

-48

7.4

17.9

-59

              Excess: 20% or more,  Normal:   +19% to –19% , Deficient: -20% to –59% 

             Scanty: -60% to  -99%  and  No Rain:  -100 %  In calculation of excess, deficits and

             their   percentage rainfall   figures are taken to  0.1  mm.   

             (*) Rainfall less than 0.1 mm.

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