As Southwest Monsoon tries to build momentum to climb up the latitudes interior parts of Peninsular India including Tamil Nadu has been seeing evening thunderstorms light up the skies. Yesterday saw some intense thunderstorms to the west of Chennai near Tiruttani creating some wonderful evening skies as the thunderstorms provided silhouettes to the setting…
Near Normal Day Time Conditions expected over Tamil Nadu
Yesterday parts of Interior Tamil Nadu particularly around Tiruchirappallil, Villupuram, Thiruvannamalai districts recorded good thunderstorms under the influence of remnant moisture moving across Peninsular India from the West Coast triggered by the monsoon current over Kerala. Yesterday on the temperature front many areas including Chennai recorded the coolest day in more than 3 weeks. Similar…
Temperatures to Ease over most of Tamil Nadu
The summer heat that had gripped most of Tamil Nadu and in particular Northern parts of the state is expected to ease its grip slowly from now on. Yesterday saw both Chennai observatories record lower than 40°C for the first time in almost a week. Vellore, Tiruttani & Karur were the only observatories in the…
Chennai Suburbs see hottest May since 2012
May is the hottest month for Chennai with the mean maximum temperature for the city observatory at Nungambakkam being 37.1°C and for the Airport observatory at Meenambakkam being 37.4°C . In comparison June is marginally lesser with 37.0°C and 37.3°C being the mean maximum temperature for respective observatories. With the hottest month behind us its…
Some Respite from Heat for Chennai
Under the influence of Cyclone Mora, in Bay of Bengal, Chennai saw relentless heat for the last couple of days. Yesterday once again both the observatories recorded above 41°C with Nungambakkam recording identical maximum of 41.6°C and Meenambakkam recording just 0.1°C lesser than the previous day’s high of 41.8°C. Things though are likely to improve…