On 24-May, highest maximum temperature of 48.2°C has been recorded at Kota (Rajasthan)... Chennai far behind..!!

Severe heat wave conditions are prevailing over isolated pockets of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh

Chennai - temp. now 2:25pm is 40.2°C

RT @jobinVJ: Monsoon strtng in kerala. Alex Frater's 'chasing the monsoon' z a v.gd rain read.

Chennai - WOW... temperature touched 40 ... 40.5°C (2:15pm) ... 1st 40 of the Year 2010.

Cyclone over Arabian sea will disrupt the monsoon dynamics along Kerala coast.. http://ow.ly/1Ps5O

Laila system is not seen as intensifying appreciably to exert further “pull” pressure on the monsoon along Kerala.

Prof Paul Roundy at the University of Albany has been alluding to the development of a system in the southeast and east-central Arabian Sea.

Cyclone formation and its strengthening just before the onset of monsoon could have an adverse impact over dynamics along the Kerala coast.

US NCEP showed a calibrated rise of rain activity along the southwest coast of India during the course of this week.