City of Chennai records 41.5 degrees now, a record for this year
Posted on: 03/May/2019 9:28:48 AM
The cyclone ‘Fani’ has been disappointing and it has not resulted in the rainfall that was expected in Chennai. This cyclone has passed more than 400 km away from Chennai city now. The news that has come out is the city of Chennai on Thursday, 2nd May 2019 recorded a high temperature of 41.5 degree Celsius. This temperature is now the highest temperature recorded in this year 2019 in the Chennai city. The main reason for such high temperature in Chennai was due cyclone ‘Fani’ pulling away all the winds from the land leaving coastal places like Chennai with hot southerly winds.
For the next 24 hours of time, the sky would be cloudy in Chennai city and this was as per the weather forecast. The information collected is this sizzling weather would continue through this upcoming weekend also. It must be noted that at the noon when the sun was at its peak, the humidity recorded was low of 28 %. Places like Nungambakkam recorded 41.5 Rs and Meenambakkam recorded 41.6 Rs.
It has been pointed out by the weather experts that cyclone ‘Fani’ that is rotating in counter clockwise direction has been pulling away winds from the land. It is said that hot winds from the west and southern parts of the land are moving towards the extremely severe cyclonic storm blowing through the coastal regions like Chennai etc.
The important point is cyclone is governing the direction of the wind and mercury touching 40 degree Celsius is highly common in the month of May. Since the year 2010, city of Chennai touched 40 degree mark every year except in 2016 and 2018 is known. It must not be forgotten that on 30th of April 2019, the Chennai city recorded 40 degree Celsius. On Friday, the weathermen had predicted light to moderate rainfall in the isolated regions of TN. The information gathered is on Saturday there would be dry weather in TN and in Puducherry.
It must be taken into account that on 3rd May 2019 IndiGo airlines had cancelled its flights from Bhubaneshwar while GoAir has waived cancellation fee for Bhubaneshwar, Kolkata and Ranchi flights for travel till 5th of May.
