Bloggers venturing weather forecast on rise

From school children, IT professionals, farmers, businessmen and even chartered accountants are all pulling out time from their busy schedule and make weather forecasting an integral part of their daily routine.

The blogging community, as such, is growing in number and there are numerical cases in Chennai, wherein people have set-up their own weather stations at homes. This is a new trend that is gaining immense popularity.

For instance, a class 10 student is an admin to a dedicated Facebook page called ‘Monsoon of Chennai’, which has 101 followers. Habid Mohammed Ameen Bijli, a student of Measi Matriculation Higher Secondary School, calls himself the weather forecaster of George Town area.

“I have an indigenous rain gauge using which I measure the quantum of rainfall in my area. My friends often call me to enquire about the weather like when it will rain and how heavy the spell would be. I started following weather from 2012 and now can read the radar and satellite images making long-term and short-term predictions”, he said.

Even his personal Facebook page is full of posts relating to weather.

Organic farmer R. Surya, wife of actor Pashupathy, is also an active blogger with Kea Weather. -

For me, I can see with some conviction looking at the radar images on when it is going to rain”. Shiva Kumar, popular by name Navok Nole among bloggers, and works with Head Tennis, says observing weather and tracking events is one of the fantastic chases.

There is another blogger Chandra Mouli, a resident of Ambattur and II year MBA student with MGR University.

He has a passion for clouds and also an amateur forecaster.

A chartered accountant Sampath, working with RR Donnelley, is another senior most blogger with Kea Weather, who says weather analysis became a part and parcel of his life. “All the time, there will be 10-15 tabs opened in the phone of different sites and models, even while working at the office”. There is another set of bloggers who need no introduction. They are as good as professional meteorologists.

IT professional P. Gokul and Pradeep John working with Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services, businessman Shankar along with Ehsan Ahmed, who own an Automatic Weather Station and owner of Kea Weather blog have earned expertise in weather forecasting. Ahmed says his blog alone has 250 members and receive 40,000 hits per day.