You may be having various reasons to want to know if rains are imminent in Goa.
1. You may be a visitor planning your trip to Goa and looking forward to lots of sunshine on the beach!
2. You may be a resident Goan planning an outdoor function and you don't want your guests to get wet!
3. You may be a businessman who doesn't want the rain to interfere in his planned activity, or,
4. You may be one those like me, who look forward to the rains not for any business gains but just because you believe that Goa is best during rains!
As Goa receives almost all its annual rains of nearly 3000 mm average in just four months of monsoon, you will have to seek advice from the weatherman for bright and sunny days, between June and September!
But fortunately help is at hand, even for those who don't care about or ahem, let's say who are blissfully ignorant of all the weatherman's mumbo jumbo!
So, in this post and the next post we will try to see just how you may be able to firm up your plans for Goa with the rains or without the rains!
In Part I, we will look at the Weather websites and Apps which give you ready-made information.
In Part II, we will look at more detailed online resources from India Meteorological Department, EUMETSAT, COLA specially dedicated to the monsoon.
First up though -:
Weather Apps and Websites:
There are n number of good weather apps for your desktop or your mobile on all the platforms which are easy to install and could give you fairly good information on current weather in Goa or predictions for the coming 7 days or even 10 days. Many have links to satellite imagery to satisfy your curiosity for visual proof of clouds or lack of them.
My favourite websites for weather are Accuweather and Weather Underground .
When you type Goa India or Panaji Goa India in the City search field and select it, you are presented with all the information you will ever need in a new window. Though Goa is a state and Panaji is its capital city, the data available on the web and shown as Goa weather, is for Panaji City. Both the websites show forecast for next few days besides satellite views. Unfortunately Radar images are not available for Goa because - there is no Doppler Radar in Goa for meteorological use!
I prefer the Accuweather website though because it gives daily, hourly - separately for morning, afternoon, evening and night - weekend, extended and monthly weather. Besides weather for nearby places, warnings and historical weather data is also available. The forecast section has allIndia forecast shown graphically and covers quite a number of things.
The Accuweather App sits on the right sidebar of my blog, showing the current weather conditions for Goa. Try clicking on the various buttons on the app and it will take you to Accuweather website!
Apps like Accuweather, Weather.com, Weather Live are available for all types of mobiles and smart phones and they pretty much do the same things!
In Part II we will look at the monsson related resources on the website of India Meteorological Department and some more!
