May 25, 2021
Kerala next; trifle late in Lanka, Myanmar Even as India is awaiting the onset of this year’s South-West monsoon along the Kerala coast around May 31 as projected by the India Meteorological Department (IMD,) it would be instructive to look at select geographies in the neighbourhood where the season should have kept its date by now.
The Sri Lankan Meteorological Department on Tuesday declared the onset over the island nation, the penultimate pit-stop before the monsoon caravan reaches Kerala coast. The normal date of onset over Sri Lanka is May 22, and it would be interesting to see whether the slight lag gets transmitted to the crucial leg next.
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La Nina crumbling, says Australian Met
March 02, 2021
‘Neutral’ conditions seen during March-May
The 2020–21 La Nina event in the tropical Equatorial East Pacific has passed its peak and is now weakening, an update from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Climate model outlooks indicate the Equatorial Pacific will return to ‘neutral’ (neither LaNina nor El Nino) conditions during March to May.
The tropical Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures are currently close to the La Nina threshold. But atmospheric indicators clearly remain at La Nina levels. Waters beneath the surface remain cooler than average, but the strength of cool anomalies has begun to ease, the Bureau said, analysing conditions.