After what has been a long wait, since the landfall of Vardah, for Chennai and its residents the first meaningful spell of rains is not very far away now. Yesterday saw isolated rains in many parts of the city during the late afternoon, subsequently another spell of rains closer to midnight gave some rains to…
Southwest Monsoon 2017 suffers Early Season Stall
Southwest Monsoon 2017 on the back of Cyclone Mora made earlier than normal onset over Kerala on May 30th. Since then the eager expectation for most weather observers has been the northward movement of the monsoon surge. While rest of the country eagerly awaits the arrival of Southwest Monsoon the monsoon has pretty much parked…
Interior Tamil Nadu to see Isolated Rains
As Southwest Monsoon tries to build momentum to climb up the latitudes interior parts of Peninsular India including Tamil Nadu has been seeing evening thunderstorms light up the skies. Yesterday saw some intense thunderstorms to the west of Chennai near Tiruttani creating some wonderful evening skies as the thunderstorms provided silhouettes to the setting…
Near Normal Day Time Conditions expected over Tamil Nadu
Yesterday parts of Interior Tamil Nadu particularly around Tiruchirappallil, Villupuram, Thiruvannamalai districts recorded good thunderstorms under the influence of remnant moisture moving across Peninsular India from the West Coast triggered by the monsoon current over Kerala. Yesterday on the temperature front many areas including Chennai recorded the coolest day in more than 3 weeks. Similar…
Temperatures to Ease over most of Tamil Nadu
The summer heat that had gripped most of Tamil Nadu and in particular Northern parts of the state is expected to ease its grip slowly from now on. Yesterday saw both Chennai observatories record lower than 40°C for the first time in almost a week. Vellore, Tiruttani & Karur were the only observatories in the…