“Beware the Ides of March” Words uttered by a soothsayer in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar The Ides of March may have been uttered to warn Julius Caesar in the play written by William Shakespeare, but the weather blogging community possibly knows it is equally applicable as far as summer goes for Tamil Nadu. More often…
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Appreciable increase in temperatures likely over Interior Peninsular India
Winter 2024 was abnormally warm over Southern Peninsular India. The IMD monthly summary indicated during the month of January the max temperatures over the region was about 0.67°C above normal which was the fourth highest average maximum temperature during January since 1901. During February the max temperature over Southern Peninsular India was 0.97°C warmer than…
Dry weather to accelerate the arrival of Summer over Peninsular India
The IMD long term temperature anomaly analysis indicate a trend of 0.62°C degree increase in temperatures over the Indian sub continent every 100 years. The four out of the five hottest years have been since 2010. While 2023 was the second hottest year, the hottest year was 2016 which was immediately after one of the…
Weak Rainfall activity to keep temperatures under check over Peninsular India
The last couple of days saw temperatures increase appreciably over the interior areas of Peninsular India. While both Erode and Karur recorded above 39°C the IMD observatory at Chennai AP recorded 35.3°C. Weather models did pick up this spell of appreciably warmer than normal day time temperatures fairly well in advance. While overall Peninsular India…
Spike in temperatures likely over Interior Tamil Nadu
With nearly 3 weeks of February gone the afternoons have started to heat up over the interior places of Peninsular India. It is no surprise though as Peninsular India is the first to heat up in the Indian subcontinent as parts of West Coast and West Interior areas of Peninsular India see summer first before…