After the heat wave conditions of last week, over the last couple of days temperatures have eased at many places over Tamil Nadu though a few places like Karur / Salem / Madurai / Tiruchirappalli continue to hover around the 100 F mark. The strengthening of the Easterlies has meant coastal areas like Chennai has…
Temperatures to ease over TN
After few days of intense heatwave conditions temperatures are expected to ease over most of Tamil Nadu bringing some respite to the interior areas. Yesterday itself a lot of places showed marginal reduction in temperatures with only Karur recording above 40ºC unlike the previous day when Karur, Dharmapuri, Salem, Tiruttani, Madurai, Vellore & Trichy recorded…
Another day of Intense Heat over Interior TN
For second straight day heat wave conditions prevailed over large parts of Tamil Nadu with 3 stations recording more than 40ºC, Dharmapuri, Vellore & Tiruttani, of which Tiruttani recorded 40 for the second day in succession. Dharmapuri recorded 40.2ºC yesterday which was the highest ever temperature recorded for the month of March breaking the previous…
Another day of sizzling heat ahead over most of TN
As expected by models yesterday saw the heat quotient jump across Tamil Nadu with many places recording their hottest day of 2019 so far. Tiruttani became the first station in the state to touch 40 degree Celsius for the year 2019 as Vellore, Salem, Karur & Madurai AP also recorded temperatures above 39 degrees. Both…
First Heat Wave Conditions of 2019 upon us
While it may be only first week of March the first heat wave conditions of 2019 is upon us from today. Once again as we keep repeating often prevailing wind patterns is the primary trigger for changing temperature patterns more often than not. In particular this holds good very much for Peninsular India where Easterlies…





