Possibility of thunderstorm in Chennai on Saturday
Posted on: 15/Jun/2019 9:39:14 AM
For the last one week, Chennai city has been extremely hot and this heat has been making the lives of the Chennai residents very difficult. On Friday, 14th June, the temperature in Chennai crossed 40 degrees for the 6th consecutive day.
The sensational information collected is Chennai city sizzled at 41.1 degree Celsius yesterday and the temperature was above 40 degrees even after 2 pm. The point is sea breeze had set in late. Strong westerly winds have led to this abnormal increase in the day temperatures in Chennai now and this was as per the officials of the meteorological department. On Saturday, 15th June, thunder storms might be possible in the Chennai city.
The wind pattern has been changed by the cyclone Vayu and this was confirmed by none other than Mr. Puviarasan who is the director of Area Cyclone warning Centre. He spoke about how it would take another 2 to 3 days for wind pattern favourable for thunderstorm activity to establish in the entire TN. The superb piece of news is Chennai city might get light rains on Saturday.
The monsoon activity has not started in Kerala state and as a result of that the dry westerlies continues to be strong. It should be noted that there might be increase in the thunder storms after the weekend. Important information mentioned by the meteorological department is it would be partly cloudy sky in Chennai city with maximum temperatures around 41 degrees Celsius in the weekend.
It must be noted that the 2 weather stations located in Chennai in places like Nungambakkam and Meenambakkam have been recognised as long term observing stations by the World Meteorological Organisation. The amazing information collected is the weather stations in Chennai were among 5 chosen from India and these weather stations have been making weather observations for more than 100 years. This was as per Mr. Balachandran who is deputy director general of meteorology.
He concluded that it was the recognition for maintaining 100 years of data and these data could be used as important records to access climate variability and to understand changes in the climate system.
