Weather and micro-climate blogs (Copyright WeatherCast)

Recently, there has been an increase in the number of weather enthusiasts who are putting out  blogs and tweets for social cause, primarily with an intention of helping the locals as well as the farming community. India has a rich equatorial dynamics, which is extremely hard to comprehend and hence weather enthusiasts (in groups and individual) are making an effort to disseminate weather related advisories to the society.  I myself found that my passion lies in weather analysis (which is also a part of my academic research), and I should put my knowledge to use in an effective manner. With this intention, I started blogging and tweeting posts about weather conditions (both on national and regional scale). The main motive of this blog is to share my experience, as to how I go about reading the models and charts before giving out advisories. There are five parameters that I look at, which I call “Five Point Analysis (FiPA)” . They are as follows: (a) 850 mb Geopote...

The early onset of 2018 monsoon season was in itself a welcome news for south peninsular India, which has been experiencing below average monsoon for quite sometime now (2015, 2016 & 2017). The icing on the cake has been the torrential downpour from the start of the monsoon season up until now, where almost all the stations in Kerala, South coastal Karnataka, Nilgiris and adjoining areas have recorded excess rainfall, with some stations recording large excess ( on the right season's rainfall for Kerala is shown, source IMD ). While overall this is a great beginning, with record rainfall activity in these places, there is always a downside to such bountiful monsoon showers, that being - floods, loss of lives, overflowing reservoirs, and damage to infrastructure. To a large extent, we could blame these punitive damages to lack of proper government planning during monsoon period, where proper care should be taken for tropical countries, which shoulder the wrath of monsoons, b...