A usual winter day

A normal dry wintery day for Chennai.
Today's low temp was 23.0°C @ 5:14am
In recent days the humidity has gone down and going down...
take a look at this.

A mild day

A mild day after all unusual rains yesterday.
Today humidity dropped low 48% @ 2:52pm, and yesterday it was 93% at the same time.
Good news is the monthly rainfall average stands well above the normal
50.2mm (Jan. normal - 16 mm)
This somewhat compensates the low rainfall during Nov-2007.

Yesterdays sudden rain activity was far spread across the most parts of Northern-Tamilnadu and south AndhraPradesh.
Some rainfall statistics from yesterday.
Cuddalore 15, Sirkali (Nagapattinam dt) 11, Chidambaram (Cuddalore dt) 9, Panruti (Cuddalore dt), Parangipettai and Cholavaram (Thiruvallur dt) 8 each, Ponneri and Thamaraipakkam (both Thiruvallur dt), Puducherry Airport, Tada (Nellore dt) and Puttur (Chittoor dt) 7 each.

Going by the satellite pic, the equator region near the Indonesian islands are very active, this will not be the case during this time of year.
Present (7:24PM) temperature is 25.9°C

Unusual day!

Unusual day!
Monsoon again!...ha ha
First take a look at the latest satellite pic....

Going by the pic there is nothing visual.
From yesterday(3-Jan-08) night 9:30Pm onwards it's raining , raining again and again with cloudy intervals.
Today(4-Jan-08) morning, afternoon and then in evening...
It's exactly like North-east monsoon. Showers coming from North-east and sometimes from east too.
This kind of activity during January is very unusual.
I dont think this activity will prevail... for long, may be upto morning of 5-Jan-08.
Today's records...
Temperature high 25.1° (1:04pm)
Humidity now 92%
Rainfall....43.6 MM

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Cold winter afternoon

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Today morning it was cold as usual, 21.0°C @ 6:31am.
Around 10 AM it was sunny and suddenly it became cloudy and temperature started falling, now it's 27.3°C @ 3:07PM and it's falling at the rate of -0.16°C/hr.
Moreover the humidity during the past 5 days is also low.
Chennai might receive some drizzles during the coming weekend, so expect an cold, windy and slightly wet weekend.

Happy 2008

Happy 2008 to all our readers.

Misty morning

Chennai woke up to a misty/foggy morning.
This is not unusual though... foggy conditions prevailed till 8:30 and slowly moved away to a clear sky.
By afternoon the temperature was 30.6°C @ 12:04pm
and by evening the temperature was dropping at .63°C per hour, now (10:27PM) the temperature is 22.9°C.
Going thru the satellite IR, we can see the remnance of "94B" is near the Saudi Arabia peninsula.
There was some rain around over the south extreme of TamilNadu.
As a whole the cloud formation has began to disintegrate, so ... we can say that's it to North-East monsoon.
Enjoy the winter weather!

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Hot & Humid

Today from morning the temperature is rising, now it's 30.3°C @ 12:07pm
and humid too 60% for this time of year.
It's all unusual thru this North-east season and early winter.
We might have a LAST show of the North-East air current... early next week(monday/tuesday).
Take a look at the latest satellite pic.

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