Chennai - Today Touched a HIGH for this Mar-10 month .. 36.6°C (11:30am). Now 1:34pm we have stiff breeze from East, this will cool things.

NCEP : Easterly wave during 6-Apr week will bring rain for south Kerala and adjoining interior Tamil Nadu but less over coastal Tamil Nadu

NCEP, the westerlies may set up a string of thunderstorms along the Himalayan foothills and north-east during the week ending April 6.

thundershowers have helped cool down the North-East by bringing maximum temperatures to below normal by two to three deg Celsius

Heavy rain has lashed many places in the North-East as seasonal thundershowers peaked during the 24 hours ending on Tuesday morning

Global Hawk, NASA's New Remote-Controlled Plane ... http://bit.ly/d8Quri

Global Hawk, NASA's New Remote-Controlled Plane

At NASA’s Dryden Research Center in California, a group of engineers, scientists, and aviation technicians have set up camp in a noisy, chilly hangar on Edwards Air Force base. For the past two weeks, they have been working to mount equipment—from HD video cameras to ozone sensors—onto NASA’s Global Hawk, a remote-controlled airplane that can fly for up to 30 hours at altitudes up to 65,000 feet.
The team is gearing up for the Global Hawk Pacific campaign, a series of four or five scientific research flights that will take the Global Hawk over the Pacific Ocean and Arctic regions. The 44-foot-long aircraft, with its comically large nose and 116-foot wingspan is pictured in the photograph above, banking for landing over Rogers Dry Lake in California at the end of a test flight on October 23, 2009. The long wings carry the plane’s fuel, and the bulbous nose is one of the payload bays, which house the science instruments.
For the Global Hawk Pacific campaign, the robotic aircraft will carry ten science instruments that will sample the chemical composition of air in the troposphere (the atmospheric layer closest to Earth) and the stratosphere (the layer above the troposphere). The mission will also observe clouds and aerosol particles in the troposphere. The primary purpose of the mission is to collect observations that can be used to check the accuracy of simultaneous observations collected by NASA’s Aura satellite.
Co-lead scientist Paul Newman from Goddard Space Flight Center is writing about the ground-breaking mission for the Earth Observatory’s Notes from the Field blog.

Chennai - is going to be HOT till 12pm and slowly go down after the sea breeze sets in.

Sat. shows heavy showers continue over North-east states.. http://yfrog.com/jxyppj

Morning Sat. shows, a partly cloudy U.P and Medium high cloud cover for South Karnataka.. http://yfrog.com/jxyppj