Chennai - Touched a max of 36.1°C (11:12am).. and today also having good stiff breeze from South East.. this'll cool things off.

RT @Shweta_Gigras: Chennai is getting hotter day by day :-S

Early & Good South-west Monsoon predicted for Kerala & West Tamilnadu

EL Nino Southern Oscillation [ENSO] is an indicator of Indian summer Monsoon Rainfall 2010. On observing the general weather conditions prevailing in Tamilnadu, one has to presume that this time too SW monsoon in earlier May & June will be active over TN. Nor the Bay branch of the monsoon current will be prominent during onset at Kanyakumari (and) district or felt prominent just prior to on set. My colleagues working in TN Forest department expressed that the migration of wild animals like Panther and elephants into Eastern slopes of western ghats is an indicator that TN will get relatively more rainfall during 2010 early SW monsoon period. They further quoted that even reptiles have migrated down slope fearing big forest fires in the upper reaches of western ghat in Theni & Coimbatore districts. [owing to descending air from High pressure. We will hope and optimistic that rain God will be favorable for TN during 2010 SWM period.

Posted by Mr. Anonymous

Some of these Nor'wester storms reach tornadic violence and cause considerable damage to property

Nor'wester is always associated with a violent thunderstorm

What is ‘Nor'westers' or ‘Kal Baisakhi' ?? They occur mostly during the transition period from winter... http://bit.ly/akLZaN

From monday the N-westerly would in effect trigger the full-fledged onset of ‘Nor'westers' or ‘Kal Baisakhi' in the region

Rains would become more widespread from Monday as a fresh western disturbance parked over north Pakistan and adjoining Jammu and Kashmir.

North-eastern States have started getting seasonal showers as prevailing westerlies and a heated-up land combined to breed thunderstorms

Chennai - Temp. now 10:47am is already 34.3°C.. it'll touch a max of 36 before the Sea breeze from East sets in.