PhotoBlog: Finding Monsoon Clouds

Monsoon clouds coming in | © Soumo's Railways

Today I found the monsoon clouds coming in. These lovely isolated cotton ball like clouds are so beautiful. The pre-monsoon clouds are white, but they will be darker as monsoon will inch closer.

Here in the Kolkata and South Bengal, monsoon is expected to arrive around June 10th, which is the normal date. But I read in the newspaper that it will arrive a little early this year, probably on June 8th, 2 days early than normal.

It was such a terrible hot day today (as it is since last 2 or 3 days), I was almost grilled in the sun! In the early morning today, the weather was almost like the typical autumn season here in South Bengal - there was lovely blue sky, bright comfortable sun and these rain clouds. But become extremely hot by 10 AM or so.

This year weather Gods were somewhat kind to us. We in the Kolkata and adjoining suburban region had frequent rainfall throughout the summer, so the summer heat was somewhat bearable.

Summer is not an ideal season for railfanning. Monsoon is also not very ideal, but this season provides some very unique railfanning opportunities. Especially I would encourage fellow enthusiasts to plan trips on some very scenic rail routes which becomes more beautiful in the monsoon. The whole Konkan Railway zone, Kerala (and the whole South India perhaps), Odisha/ BBS - VSKP route along Eastern Ghats, the Visakhapatnam - Araku valley route are some worth mentioning. I wish you all a very happy monsoon, and also a very happy week and a great new month ahead.

I am very happy to write another PhotoBlog post yet again after a long time again. Again hoping that I can keep this section updated regularly. Find all my PhotoBlog Posts here. Thanks for your attention!

Here is the RF Data (for the current observation):

Date: May 27, 2018

Place: Probably outskirts of Panskura Jn (PKU), don't remember exactly.

Zone (Spotting location): SER - South Eastern Railway

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