Badlapur max temp 39.0°C with humidity of 19% today !! It's an scorching heat here due to NE land breeze till 3pm..!!

Badlapur humidity further drops to 9% at 5.30pm today..

3pm, Isolated rain seen over S Tamilnadu, S Odisha ... http://ow.ly/i/4WU32 

RT @GiriSubu: A cool, breezy spring morning. Loving it :) @weatherofindia #dombivli (7:44am)

#HEAT is on !
2:10pm, Nagpur = 39 C, Hyderabad = 38 C and Bangalore = 36 C.

#Chennai - Airport, yesterday records 35.9 C.
Today at 2:10pm it was 35 C and feels like 37.7 C

At 2pm, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Kolkata, Thiruchirapalli and Coimbatore, all records 35 C

Yesterday, in S Peninsula, Mahabubnagar (Andhra) records 39 C.

3pm, T showers seen over S Tamilnadu. And scattered moderate rain seen over N Chatisgarh ... http://ow.ly/i/4W6WG 

El Nino - Will it affect 2014 Indian South West Monsoon ??

6-Mar-2014 :: ENSO update released by CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER / NCEP / NWS, 
"ENSO-neutral is expected to continue through the Northern Hemisphere spring 2014, 
with about a 50% chance of El Niño developing during the summer or fall."

Here's the full report ... Download PDF

11-Mar-2014 :: ENSO report released by Australian BOM ...
"Recent observations indicate that warming of the tropical Pacific is occurring. The tropical Pacific Ocean
sub-surface has warmed substantially over the past few weeks, which is likely to result in a warming of the
sea surface in the coming months. A recent burst of westerly winds over the far western Pacific is the
strongest seen since at least 2009 – the last time an El Niño developed."

Here's the full report of BOM ... Click here

Meanwhile, the Indian Ocean Dipole is NEUTRAL, and expected to remain that way till August-2014.

El Nino, effect on Indian South west Monsoon 2014??

"raising fears of a possible weak monsoon this year." ... http://goo.gl/AI5f4M
" India keeps a close watch on El Nino" ... http://goo.gl/4i5kmX
"El Niño Could Hurt India’s Monsoon "... http://goo.gl/4qsFJO

RT @aknarendranath: Unusually heavy thundertorm over Delhi around 05.45 am. Farmers must have rued it for the damge to their standing crops. 

9:30am, Heavy rain over Kashmir, Himachal and Uttarakhand. moderate rain popping over N,central Uttarpradesh as well http://ow.ly/i/4VZFL 
During the night, T showers popped over N,N-E Rajathan and traveled across Haryana, #Delhi. Here's a sat IR 3:30am.. http://ow.ly/i/4VZQF

W.D is moving away to East... today showers will push into Nepal, N,N-E Uttarpradesh, N Bihar, N Bengal, Sikkim and into Northern N-E states

Dust storms in West Asia and North Africa can increase the Indian summer monsoon rainfall a week later .. http://ow.ly/uFcco 

#Chennai - Yesterday, Airport records a max temp of 32.6 C and today morning it was 22.6 C.

Most of peninsula and E India, the day temperature has risen sharply ...
In Tamilnadu salem touches 37.2 C.

IMD - "A number of stations recorded the highest maximum temperature of 38 C in S,central Peninsula"

During next 3 days, the DAY temp is expected to rise above 35 C over most of Peninsula and W,E India ... http://ow.ly/i/4VriU 

From 22/23-Mar ... Most of #India is expected to touch the 35 C day temperature ... http://ow.ly/i/4Vrnp 

Today - An easterlies is affecting S,S-W Bay, Srilanka and S,S-E Tamilnadu ... http://ow.ly/i/4Vq7r 
From tomorrow - T Showers are expected for S Tamilnadu and for W-Ghats of S,Central Kerala ... http://ow.ly/i/4VqcA 
From tomorrow, Afternoon T Showers are expected over S,central, W-ghats of Kerala .
Expected to persist till 22-Mar !!

In next 24hrs, a low-level line of wind discontinuity is expected from E Madhyapradesh to N-W Karnataka ... http://ow.ly/i/4VpQx 
Scattered Moderate rain expected to persist over W,S-W,Central,N,N-E Maharastra during next 36hrs.