Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam

The clock is now ticking towards the famous Indian Summer as the temperatures have started to creep up across many parts of the country.  Yesterday saw many places in the Vidharba and adjoining parts of Chhattisgarh record around 42°C.  The city observatory in Bangalore recorded 37.2°C just 0.1°C off the all time record for hottest…

The last few days fairly dry weather has been the trend over most of Tamil Nadu except for some extremely isolated rains in South Tamil Nadu in the absence of any significant synoptic conditions.  But the saving grace has been the absence of any abnormally hot temperature trends across South India.  Many parts of Northwest…

The rainy spell over Peninsular India has pretty much wound down with mostly dry fortnight on the cards across the region except for some pockets of West Coast along Kerala & Karnataka which is likely to see isolated light rains continue but overall dry weather is expected to prevail as March gives way to April….

Today is the World Meteorological Day a day that marks the creation of a UN body specializing  in meteorology in the year 1950.  Since 1961  the meteorological community has been celebrating March 23rd as World Meteorological Day.  WMO which has been in the forefront of a lot of developments in this field has been revolving…

As early summer conditions prevails over parts of interior Tamil Nadu yesterday saw isolated rains in many parts of Western Tamil Nadu in the districts of Coimbatore, Erode, Tiruppur, Namakkal & Krishnagiri districts.  Karur after crossing 40 degrees for the second straight day saw moderate rains in the evening bring in much needed relief from…