Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam

As Southwest Monsoon continues to be weak over West Coast of India, parts of Tamil Nadu have been receiving convective evening thunderstorms.  On the one hand while most Chennaites look forward to getting a spell or two of these thunderstorms in order to replenish the ground water resources locally one should keep in mind the…

The evening thunderstorms continue to provide some respite to parts of Tamil Nadu with isolated rains seen in many places along the coast yesterday as well while one or two places in the interiors got some rains.  While Chennai saw rains in many places on Thursday yesterday saw sharp showers in a few places with…

A day after what was the hottest day in more than a month overnight Rains lashed many parts of Chennai with some areas of the city recording intense thunderstorms.  In what was a fairly good day for Coastal Tamil Nadu all the way from Tiruvallur district to Delta districts rains were recorded in many places…

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…