Author: Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikkaalam

With the first heat wave of 2016 behind us time to look forward for some rains in Tamil Nadu once again.  With the Sun getting ready to move back into Northern Hemisphere it is at time of the year when we are looking at the thunderstorm season starting for parts of South India. Under the…

Yesterday saw the season’s first thunderstorm rains in East India hit West Bengal & Bangladesh.  Parts of Kolkata received heavy overnight rains under the influence of two cyclonic circulations that are embedded in a trough seen extending from Northeast India to Vidharba. Initiated by the the trough with associated wind patterns and aided by the…

After a couple of days of extremely hot weather in Tamil Nadu things looked up for the interior places with temperatures dropping a couple of degrees across the state bringing in some relief to the people who were possibly not expecting summer like conditions to happen so early.  But we were quite early in our…

Yesterday saw blistering heat in Tamil Nadu with Salem clocking 38°C for the first time in 2016 while  many places recorded more than 36°C across all parts of Tamil Nadu indicating the widely prevalent hot weather for the state along with rest of the Peninsular India. Yesterday Gulbarga became the second place to record 40°C…

Sunday was a fairly hot day in Chennai with temperatures crossing 33°C for the second consecutive day in both the observatories of Chennai.  Similarly across Tamil Nadu temperatures increased a notch with most interior places seeing the effect of clear skies and sun bearing down. Coimbatore had a blazing day with temperature touching 35.8°C Things…