Hot Weather has tightened its grip over Tamil Nadu as many parts of the state recorded fairly hot afternoon yesterday with places like Vellore recording nearly 4°C above normal temperature for this time of the year. Dharmapuri not far away from Vellore recorded more than 3°C above normal max temperatures yesterday while both Chennai observatories…
Yesterday saw most parts of Tamil Nadu record warmer than normal max temperatures under crystal clear skies. Vellore which is normally comfortable under active monsoon conditions saw a max temperature of 37.1°C more than 3 degrees above normal for this time of the year. Both the observatories in Chennai recorded marginally above normal max temperatures….
Typically convective rains for Coastal Tamil Nadu picks up pace when the Westerlies weaken during subdued monsoon phase. The role of sea breeze in this development of convective rains can never be ignored. More often than not the role of sea breeze can be identified in any thunderstorm activity that is formed in places like…
Southwest Monsoon has been mostly subdued for the past couple of weeks over West Coast except for a spell or two of moderate rains in the ghat areas of Kerala & Karnataka. It is an irony the accumulated rainfall recorded at the Colaba station of IMD in Mumbai is 183.8 mm for the past 30…
Last Night saw fairly widespread rains in Chennai with few ares getting moderate to heavy spells of rains during the early hours. As mentioned in our post yesterday it was one active day of Veppa Salanam thunderstorms in Tamil Nadu with bulk of the rains happening in Cuddalore / Villupuram districts. While the IMD observatory at…
