Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam

Many areas of Chennai received midnight / early morning showers making it a very pleasant day break for the city.  Like yesterday passing showers has been the order today as well at the time of sunrise.  While most places have received light rains, Taramani, recorded 17 mm rains till morning with Anna University recording 10…

Yesterday saw another day of Rains in Tamil Nadu particularly around North & West Interior Tamil Nadu with Harur in Dharmapuri district getting more than 4 cms rains. In a case of so near yet so far the stretch between Guduvancherry & OMR recorded moderate to heavy spells of overnight rains while the city had…

Yesterday saw electrifying midnight thunderstorms in Chennai with South Chennai & Southern suburbs enjoying the benefit of intense rainfall little after midnight till about 2 AM.  In what looked like ending up as a hot and dry day things got better as the evening progresses with thunderstorms finally forming around Tiiruvannamalai / Polur area that…

The last couple of days have been touch and go for Chennai Rains.  The day before was pretty much quite for places in and around Chennai.   Yesterday was better though it was mostly light passing showers at many places while Anna Univeristy got about 5 mm rains among all observatories in Chennai.  KVK Kaattupakkam,…

Yesterday saw for the second day rains in Tamil Nadu with quite a few places receiving moderate spells of rains.   Thirukoilur in particular received a spell of very heavy rains when more than 5 cms of rains fell in one hour between 4:30 PM & 5:30 PM.  Going by the radar & AWS data…