With the first week of April winding down summer is still subdued over most parts of Tamil Nadu. If one were to look at the temperature anomaly charts for 2018 the areas around North Tamil Nadu have so far seen a degree or so below normal temperatures overall for the past month or so indicating…
Most of Tamil Nadu has been seeing moderately hot days for the past couple of days with isolated places in South TN crossing 38°C. The state capital Chennai has been seeing near normal temperatures as well under occasionally partly cloudy skies. Since 30th March the max temperature at Nungambakkam observatory has not touched 35 while…
As the Easterlies showed signs of strengthening over Coastal Tamil Nadu not only there was some reduction in temperature over many parts of the state, isolated rainfall activity was also observed in one or two places. Places to the South of Chennai near Chengalpattu recorded a spell of afternoon rain while yesterday morning the IMD…
Yesterday saw a slight reduction in temperatures across Tamil Nadu as estimated by models with only Madurai Town recording 39°C while all other IMD observatories recorded less than 39°C. The Airport observatory at Chennai recorded nearly 2 degrees lower maximum temperature compared to Saturday. Almost all observatories in the plains except possibly Coimbatore AP recorded…
The last week saw an increase in temperatures across Tamil Nadu due to the presence of a trough over Peninsular India changing the wind pattern. Land breeze became more dominant during the afternoons reducing the impact of the moderating Easterlies. Consequent to this was the arrival of the thunderstorms as well. The last couple of…
