A lot of time people interchange the terms “Weather” and “Climate” while discussing daily weather events. We often hear people mentioning “Climate in Chennai is pleasant today” when it should have been “Weather in Chennai is pleasant today”. Weather relates to day to day phenomenon while through Climate we refer to long term trends. In…
It is that time of the year when the talk of the town is always on Heat & Sun among common public. While not denying this is summer time one of the key reasons why Heat becomes the universal talk among people of Tamil Nadu is the prevailing Agni Naktshathiram or Kathiri Veyyil period a…
The Low Pressure area over Bay of Bengal continued to persist along the Equatorial waters straddling the Andaman Sea & off Sumatra Islands. It has been pretty much stationary over the region for the past 24 hours or so as it tries to consolidate itself into a Well Marked Low. The wind charts give enough…
This week has been very good for Tamil Nadu on the thunderstorm front. The early part of the week saw places in North TN & North West Interior TN record good rains including places like Chennai. The last couple of days saw South TN witness thunderstorms including parched places in Virudhunagar & Thoothukudi district. In…
The last couple of days have seen increased thunderstorm activity over large parts of Peninsular India, in particular the southern parts of Peninsula. Yesterday saw Trivandrum record nearly 7 cms of rains in just an hour while neighboring Nagrcoil record nearly 5 cms in an hour. Though the last two days has seen Chennai miss…
