Yesterday saw the return of Rains in Chennai as Monsoon surge weakened over the West Coast. In our Tamil Blog we had made a post on how the “Veppa Salanam” or Convective Rains happen. In text book style yesterday’s Rains in Chennai had Sea Breeze Front influence the conditions, clear skies during the afternoon provide…
As monsoon started to weaken over the West coast yesterday saw Chennai Nungambakkam IMD observatory reached the highest temperature of the year of 39.8°C recorded earlier in the year during late May. While on Wednesday a fairly strong sea breeze front brought some respite yesterday saw a YoYo battle between Westerlies and sea breeze taking…
Just as the upper level Westerlies starts to show signs of weakening the models start showing thunderstorm possibility over the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu and adjoining parts of South Andhra Pradesh. After a fairly active spell of monsoon surge over most parts of South Karnataka including the catchment areas of Kaveri & Bhadra basin…
The last few days have seen temperatures in Chennai go back and forth with cloud cover playing a moderating role. Nevertheless the max temperatures at Nungambakkam has already crossed 39°C 3 times since the start of June while whole of May saw only twice the IMD observatory record a max temperature of more than 39°C….
For most common people Chennai Summer ends when the traditional Kathri or Agni Nakshathiram period. Elders at most homes possibly would be wondering why it is still hot even though its more than a fortnight since Kathiri period ended. But as we keep repeating the real Chennai Summer starts only at the fag end of…
