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Monday hottest Sept day in city since '18:heatwave-like conditions in state

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September 17, 2024

Madurai sizzles at 40°C; dry spell may continue for a few days due to moisture depletion

- SV KRISHNA CHAITANYA

Monday hottest Sept day in city since '18:heatwave-like conditions in state

THE unusual heatwave-like conditions have swept Tamil Nadu with some districts reporting daytime temperature in excess of 4-5 degree Celsius above normal. Madurai has already breached its all-time record while Chennai's Meenambakkam weather station recorded 38.4°C on Monday which is the hottest for September since 2018.

The dry weather conditions would continue for a few more days as there is moisture depletion and the atmosphere is not conducive to cloud formation.

P Senthamarai Kannan, Director of Area Cyclone Warning Centre, Regional Meteorological Centre, told TNIE, "Due to back-to-back weather systems in the north, there is a change in wind flow. Currently, dry westerlies are flowing.

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