Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam

Like a return of Summer both Chennai observatories crossed 39 degrees yesterday with Chennai Nungambakkam becoming the hottest place in the state after recording 39.6°C in the process also being the hottest place in Tamil Nadu yesterday. In comparison to the normal temperatures for this time of the year the city observatory in Chennai was…

In continuing with the trend of convective thunderstorms picking up over Tamil Nadu yesterday saw rains lash many parts of Central Coastal Tamil Nadu with delta districts the biggest beneficiaries of yesterday’s rains.  While we come a little later to the rains part, now something on the heat front.  Once again a trend which has…

Yesterday evening say isolated places in and around Chennai get light to moderate rains as thunderstorms from the interiors moved towards the sea passing parts of the city on their way.  Sholavaram & Minjur in the Northern areas of the city along with the IMD Weather Station at Anna University recorded good rains from these…

The trend of hot days followed by isolated evening thunderstorms in Tamil Nadu continues as yesterday saw another hot day across most parts of the state with 8 IMD observatories recording 100°F.  Parts of Villupuram, Tiruvannamalai and Pudukottai districts recorded rains from evening convective thunderstorms.  The agro weather station in Vandavasi of Tiruvannamalai district recorded…

The last few days have seen Tamil Nadu see warm days as maximum temperatures tend to stay slightly above normal across most parts of the state.  In particular the coastal areas from Pondicherry & Delta along with Southern Tamil Nadu has been seeing day time temperatures stay about 3 degrees above normal for this time…