Chennai experienced one of the hottest May months in recent times. “After May 2008, this year’s peak summer season (kathri) was the warmest,” said Dr Y.E.A. Raj, deputy director general of Meteorology

India's monsoon may not arrive on Friday due to a cyclonic pressure over the Arabian Sea but the annual rains are still expected to arrive nearly on time, weather officials said on Thursday.

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On Thursday, Hirosh Sekharan, working as an executive at Emirates in Dubai, wrote on his Facebook wall that he liked to imagine how the first rains would have filled the paddy fields around his home i

Sunday was the hottest day of the year in the inner city with Nungambakkam recording the maximum temperature of 42.3 degree Celsius. The all-time high maximum temperature was 45 degree Celsius recorde

With the mercury soaring without control, Chennai hospitals are seeing an increase in the number of heat stroke cases with most of them being children. Heat stroke could be a potentially dangerous pro

Despite India Meteorological Department declaring onset of southwest monsoon over southeast bay in Andaman and Nicobar on Wednesday, the temperature levels stood high in Tamil Nadu.

The mercury level

If you are planning to build a house in Chennai, make sure the balcony or the window is facing southeast direction with enough provision for cross ventilation.

Because, the sea breeze plays a major

Chennai bore the brunt of the prevailing heat wave on Saturday with the soaring summer heat lasting well into the evening and making life tough even after sunset.

While Regional Meteorological Centr

Forty people were killed when a brief but violent hailstorm and torrential rain swept through a mountainous region of northwest China, the local government said on Sunday.

Eighteen others remained mi

Rising temperatures are going to hit India hard and by the end of the century the mean temperature rise is expected to be between 3.5 and 4.3 degrees Celsius.

This is bound to have a deleterious effe