Rainfall Check – 4 (June 2017)

Previous articles:-

Rainfall 2017 – Level 1(Panchanga-based)

Rainfall 2017 – Level 2 (Planetary combinations)

Rainfall 2017 – Level 3 (Margazhi / Solar Garbottam).

Margazhi Garbottam 2016-17 in a nutshell.

Rainfall 2017 - Level 4 (Daily Garbottam)

Rainfall Check -1 (March 2017)

Rainfall check - 2 (April 2017)

Rainfall check - 3 (May 2017)

As we enter the month of June, two distinct events have just happened. One is the formation of Cyclone Mora that formed on 28^th May in SE Bay and quickly transformed into a super cyclone and made landfall in Bangladesh on the morning of 31^st May.

The 2^nd event is the declaration by IMD that the South West Monsoon has formally set in on 30^th May 2017.

The date of formation of cyclone Mora has a significant planetary connection. On 27-28^th May, Mars entered Gemini, only to come in exact opposition of Saturn in Sagittarius. Both Mars and Saturn were in 1 degree – that is, in exact opposition with one of them rising and the other setting at the exact moment in the sky. This simultaneous rising and setting of two planets is strong rainfall support yoga. Almost at the same time on the morning of 27^th May, Moon and Mars entered Gemini together. Moon was with Mars in Gemini and then stayed in watery sign Cancer during the period of genesis and realisation of rains by this cyclone.

The cyclone’s genesis started when Mars entered the previous degree of deep conjunction with Saturn. It intensified into a cyclone when it was in exact conjunction with Saturn at 1 degree, 39 minutes in the morning of 29^th May and made landfall as Mars crossed 1 degree after deep conjunction with Saturn.

The above combination of opposition between these malefics is a rainfall spoiler as well.

Cyclone Mora showed that when the exact opposition comes by way of one planet rising and another setting, it does cause a trigger factor leading to very heavy rainfall. The swiftness and intensity of cyclone Mora for such a short duration is made out from this kind of rare opposition.

We are going to see two more exact conjunctions this month. One will be on 15^th June when Sun comes in exact opposition to Saturn.

The other will be on 19^th June when Mercury comes in exact opposition to Saturn. On both these dates, one will be rising while the other will be setting the sky at the same time.

We have to see whether this 

The 2^nd event is the onset of SWM on 30^th May.

On 30^th May, Venus was in the last degree of Pisces and entered Aries on 31^st May. Entry of Venus or Mercury into the next sign in the rainy season marks a trigger to rainfall. In addition to this, Venus, Mercury and Moon were in watery Navamsas on this date. Most importantly Venus and Mercury happened to be present in the same Rasi with no planet in between them. The closeness between them continuing till 21^st June also helps in rainfall from this trigger.  

Rainfall support yogas in June 2017.

(1) Venus – Mercury closeness.

Right from April 20^th onwards, pre-monsoon thunderstorms had been giving rains in NE India and parts of interior South India. The stars traversed by Venus and Mercury during this period signify NE section of India (Revathi, Aswini and Bharani).

However the gap between Venus and Mercury keeps increasing in June from 25 degrees on 1^st June to 55 degrees on 30^th June. This is a cause of concern as increasing gap reduces rainfall.

(2) Sun in Vayu Nadi.

When Sun moves across Rohini it is said to be in Vayu nadi. This signifies rainfall accompanied with gusty winds. This started on 25^th May and is going to last till 8^th June. Rohini signifies central portions, and with Sun in Taurus (southern direction), the interior parts of Peninsular India are likely to get rainfall during this period.

(3) Mars comes out of Dahana Nadi.

The movement of Mars in the star Mrigasheersha is called Dahana Nadi. It causes intense heat. This started on May 16^th and is going to end on the night of 5^th June. This results in reduction in temperature. Though this is not a rainfall yoga, the reduction in heat foretells presence of cooling features.

(4) Mercury enters combustion.

Mercury enters combustion when it is 14 degrees behind the Sun. The day of combustion is usually marked with heavy rainfall or sudden rainfall. Rainfall would usually occur throughout the combustion period in the rainy season provided other rainfall yogas are also present. This combustion starts on 9^th June and ends on 4^th July. Both these dates are important for rainfall and the entire duration is likely to see rainfall. The signs involved are south and west. This means South India and west India stand to benefit by rains.

(5) Sun in exact opposition to Saturn on 15^th June.

This causes the simultaneous rising and setting of Sun and Saturn. This happens on 15^th June. At that time Moon will be in same degrees in trinal house to Sun and Mars. Sun, Mars and Saturn will be in Kendra position to one another (in alternating / odd signs to each other) while Moon will be in rainfall causing Dhanishta on that day, crossing Ketu. Moon will be in 9^th house from Sun and Mars on that day. This is a kind of manifestation of rainfall yoga involving Sun, Mars and Saturn with Moon coming in trinal position to them. This month we will be checking whether this combination works. The location is west.

Moon will be moving across stars that signify North West during the period before and after 15^th June. This might signify Northern part of west coast of India, i.e., Maharashtra.

(6) Mercury in exact opposition to Saturn on 19^th June.

Mercury and Saturn will be at 0 degrees of Gemini and Sagittarius respectively on 19^th June. This would see Mercury setting and Saturn rising at the exact time. At that time Moon will be in Pisces, the watery sign. This is supposed to cause good rainfall. The location is North, going by the location of Moon.

(7) Mercury enters Sowmya Nadi.

Mercury’s sojourn in the star Arudra is known as Sowmya Nadi. It is a mixed bag of rains and windiness. By the star Arudra, South eastern section of India is indicated. The duration of this sojourn is from 21^st June to 27^th June.

Rainfall spoiling yogas in June.

(1) The increasing gap between Venus and Mercury.

In the past, triggers for intense and widespread rainfall were seen to coincide with the conjunction of Venus and Mercury. The closer they are to each other, better for rainfall. This year they are at considerable distance to each other though for most part of June there is no other planet in between them to spoil closeness.

They begin with a gap of 25 degrees on the 1^st of June. But with each passing day, the gap keeps increasing. On 20^th June, the gap reaches 43 degrees which was the distance that heralded retreat of SWM in 2016.

The gap keeps growing even after that and reaches 66 degrees by 30^th June. Throughout July this gap is maintained or increased. Only in mid August the gap starts getting reduced when they move towards each other.

This phenomenon of huge gap between them happening in the beginning of SWM is a great dampener for a good season of rainfall. The scenario in June and July would show us how far this feature is reliable.

(2) Mercury crosses Sun on 21^st June.

Usually when Mercury or Venus crosses the Sun in the rainy season it will cause good rainfall provided strong rainfall yogas are present. The only rainfall yoga during this time is closeness between Mercury and Venus. But that is also spoiled by increasing gap between them and sun coming in between them.

(3) Mars in the lead of all planets.

This is another feature that can reduce rainfall. This gets rectified only in July when Sun crosses Mars on 29^th July. 

Table of rainfall events in June 2017.

	Date	Astrological features	Event	Location	Spoilers, If any
1	June 1	Venus- Mercury in same sign	Rain fall	East, NE India, Interior Peninsular India	Mars in forefront.
2	June  3	Mercury enters next sign, joins Sun.	Trigger to rainfall.	West and West central India	”
3	June 5	Mars comes out of Dahana Nadi	Reduction in heat wave conditions.	South and Central India	”
4	June 8	Sun comes out of Vayu Nadi	End of thunderstorm phase.	South India
5	June 9	Mercury enters combustion	Sudden trigger to rainfall. Probability of a meteorological event.	Western parts on India	”
6	June 15	Sun enters Gemini to join Mars. Comes in exact opposition to Saturn.	Rainfall	Western parts of India	”
7	June 15 to 20th June	Sun and Mars in opposition to Saturn. Moon in favourable signs of rainfall	Rainfall	West and North India	”
8	June 18-19	Mercury enters next sign. Exact opposition to Saturn. Moon in watery sign	Rainfall	West and South India	”
9	June 20	Saturn enters Scorpio. Opposition with Mars, Sun and Mercury ends	Reduction in rainfall	West India	”
10	June 21	Mercury crosses Sun. Venus- Mercury closeness ends.	After isolated spells, a lull begins. Dry conditions start.	West India.
11	June 21 to June 27	Mercury enters Sowmya Nadi (Arudra) Saturn, Mars and Sun in watery navamsa	Rainfall accompanied with winds	South east India.

Rainfall scenario for Chennai.

Chennai is going to see good rainfall between 25^th June and 30^th June. This is ascertained from Local Garbottam experienced in Chennai.

The Margazhi Garbottam showed that there will be moderate rains in the last week of June.

The Garbottam chart for Chennai (particularly my place of observation) is given below.

Inference from the above chart:-

Conjunction of Moon with a malefic happened thrice during the corresponding Garbottam observation period. When Moon and Sun are conjunct with a malefic on a day of  Garbottam features, that indicates rainfall from cyclone in the rainfall realisation period. The conjunction that happened around 25^th Dec 2016 was not accompanied with Garbottam features in Chennai. So rainfall is ruled out during the corresponding dates in June 2017.

The 2^nd conjunction was with Mars and Ketu. Even then local Garbottam was very less. There is no trigger factor in the corresponding period in June 2017.

The 3^rd conjunction was with Rahu. This coincided with the time of Pongal in Tamilnadu. It was cloudy in Chennai during and after Pongal in Jan 2017. This was a good Garbottam feature. The conjunction with Rahu indicates a meteorological development in the form of a cyclone or some activity on the rainfall realisation period.

The above picture shows the cloud cover on 19^th January 2016 at 1 PM (taken from the website of Dundee). One can find the entire east coast of Tamilnadu and parts of Andhra experiencing good Garbottam. The corresponding date of rainfall is midnight of 29^th June 2017. 

However those places that received rainfall on 19th Jan / 20th Jan would not get rainfall on the impact date of 29th / 30th June. Chennai did not get rainfall at that time, so there is better chance to get benefited by the cloud cover which served as a good Garbottam feature then.

The next day also saw a far better cloud movement over coastal Tamilnadu including Chennai.

The above picture was taken at 11.30 AM on 20^th Jan 2017. Chennai was particularly under the cloud cover.

By 3-30 PM on the same day, the clouds spread over larger area of the coast and interior Peninsular India. (Pic below)

The corresponding date of rainfall is on the night of 30^th June 2017.

The area covered by clouds show a possible formation of a system in the Bay corresponding to the conjunction of Moon with Rahu on dates 24, 25 and 26^th of June. But there is absence of a trigger feature by planets around that time in June.

This makes me think that rainfall would be experienced from thunder storms coming from the Western direction. This is based on a feature of Garbottam that rainfall would come from the opposite direction of cloud movement on Garbottam date. On 29th and 30th Jan, cloud movement was from east. Therefore rainfall would be from the western direction. 

These two dates 29^th and 30^th June have strong Garbottam compared to previous dates in June. My notes show that there was good cool breeze and aquatic shaped clouds on the corresponding Garbottam dates. 

 If it really turns out that good rainfall is experienced on these dates, then the concept of Garbottam stands very much vindicated. 

Update on 30th June 2017.

                                                                









































It rained mildly at some places of Chennai on the night of 30th June but not in my place. The above garbottam and reality check pertain to my place of observation.

On three days (5th, 14th and 19th) it rained during the day time. The corresponding garbottam time comes at night which is not possible to observe. Only day time observation is discussed here.