chennai - HOT now 12:09pm, temp. at 12:10am was 37.0°C.. and feels like 42.1°C.. Temp. today expected to reach 39/40 C

RT @bheemaupadhyaya: Yday's midnight rain super duper wid lightning and thunder. Woke up to enjoy it. Bangalore !http://t.co/o4ZXVr8f

Vagaries' estimate of the SWM put up with map. 

Deficient possibility in Southern Peninsula and NW India.NE to get excess, and normal rainfall elsewhere.

Read explanation and city wise June estimate on Vagaries.

As per estimates, NE will get good rains, hence I feel Cherrapunji seems could be the winner this year.

Please vote on Pradeep's blog for your views.

With the Sun transforming itself as a 4 Polar Magnetic Star, Say Hello to the New Little Ice Age!

According to research by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, an unusual magnetic change is taking place in the sun which may have four poles as early as this month (May).

Normally, the sun's magnetic field flips about once every 11 years. In 2001, the sun's magnetic North Pole, which was in the northern hemisphere, flipped to the South.

Even more significant, the study points that the Sun is currently exhibiting similar solar activity to that observed during the Maunder Minimum, which occurred during the coldest years of the Little Ice Age in the 17th century.

Read more: http://devconsultancygroup.blogspot.com/2012/05/with-sun-transforming-itself-as-4-polar.html

Europe to face record cold wave: Big Pattern Change in Summer Weather

Joe Bastardi, ex Accuweather tweets" Huge reversal next week to heat areas in Europe possible record cold, Germany into Russia, but prob east of UK http://pic.twitter.com/WxmivqcF.

Read more: http://devconsultancygroup.blogspot.in/2012/05/breaking-europe-to-face-record-cold.html

UK Met Office goofs once again. Predict drought when floods

Instead of droughts as promised by the UK Met Office, Britain was plagued by the wettest April in 100 years! No surprise here as that’s so typical fate of all the Met Office’s predictions. 

Read more: http://devconsultancygroup.blogspot.in/2012/05/uk-met-offices-continued-bloomers.html

S-W monsoon style showers for Andaman islands to continue for next 3 days.

4pm, T.cells seen over coastal Andhra, coastal Orissa, N,N-W,S-central Tamilnadu, S.Bengal,S. Bangladesh.. http://ow.ly/i/B8xs

The last stand of the present W.D over Kashmir will last for another 24hrs.. after that Next W.D is expected around 6-May

Isolated T.showers for N,N-E. Andhra and Orissa will continue till 7-May and beyond