Friday hottest day this year
Posted on: 25/May/2013 12:49:57 PM
Friday was the hottest day yet this summer. Nungambakkam recorded a maximum temperature of 42 degrees Celsius and Meenambakkam 42.4 degrees Celsius. The Met Dept. has predicted a heat wave over the weekend.
Says Deputy Director of the Chennai Meteorological Department YEA Raj said, �The sea breeze set in only at 3 pm at Nu�n�gambakkam. So tem�pe�rature levels soa�red and put people to inconvenience. Usu�a�lly, the weather levels dip when there is clouding and easterly winds, but on Friday, there was no clouding and the sun�s radiation hit the earth directly. There was no onset of sea breeze over Meena�mb�a�kkam and so the tem�perature levels so�ared in the airport town� It (is) normal for temperature levels to peak during the last week of May due to strong northwesterly winds. The westerly winds had led to development of high-pressure gradient over the peninsular region leading to flow of hot air� While the temperature levels are expected to stay above normal for the next few days, there could be a slight dip from the current high levels. Unlike Delhi and Nagpur, Sea breeze is very important for Chennai and we hope things will get better in the coming days.�
