Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam

The last few days have seen fairly pleasant weather in Chennai with cool late nights & early mornings.  While the days were warm last week, Sunday saw a very pleasant day thanks to the partial cloud cover the city saw due to the developing wind confluence over North Peninsular India & Central India. As explained…

After a fairly long dry spell Isolated Rains in South India are expected to come back over the course of early next week thanks to the Wind Confluence taking place over Central India & Peninsular India.  These rains are expected to benefit mostly the interior areas of the region while most parts of South India…

With Dry Weather in Tamil Nadu continuing over the last couple of fortnights the interior places of Tamil Nadu particularly around the Western Ghats region and the areas leading to the Deccan Plateau have been seeing fairly cold weather conditions. Quite a few places in Dharmapuri, Vellore & Krishnagiri districts have been seeing the night…

Today is marked as the Foundation Day of IMD, Indian Meteorological Department, to commemorate taking over of H.F. Blanford as Imperial Meteorological Reporter on January 15, 1875.  Not many are aware India is home to some of the oldest meteorological observatories in the world including one in our very own Madras which had an observatory…

In what is possibly the best phase of weather, Winter in Chennai, has been in effect for the last few days with the maximum temperature hovering around 30°C and the minimum hovering around 20°C in the city while the suburbs have been seeing sub 20°C temperatures regularly. Though one has to admit Winter in Chennai…