It is mid-March and at this time of the year in Chennai, the sun should be giving a preview of how the summer is going to be this year. Well, no suspense in how the summer is going to be.
It will be same as last year and the year before and so on - BLAZING HOT.
But wait a minute. That is not how the weather has been for the past 2-3 days. It has been generally cloudy, not much sun and surprise of surprises, we have had rains (brief though)
in March.
I don't know how much this has to do with Global Warming, but I am noticing a welcome
change in the Chennai weather pattern. Years ago, rains were something that you got during
the months of Aug-Sep only. But over the past couple of years, we are getting occasional
showers all round the year.
Mind you, these showers cannot be called real rain (rain as in what we get in Kerala), where
it rains not cats and dogs, but pigs and sheep. The duration is also different. In Chennai, the
rains come in suddenly, catching everyone by surprise and ofcourse drenching them and after
a few minutes, the sun is shining bright, as if nothing happened.
In Kerala, you get warnings, in the form of the sky slowly darkening and when it rains, man,
it will rain for quite some time. During monsoon, it will rain for days. And this is almost all year round, except for a couple of months when there would be no rains at all.
I am loving the weather and all I hope is it remains like this tomorrow also. Actually it would
be great if it rains like hell tomorrow because me and a group of friends are driving down to Mahabalipuram (50-odd kms from Chennai) for a lunch + some go-karting and then some
off-roading on the beach sands.
There are not many things that can rival the pleasure of driving a car in the rains on the highway. But, knowing Chennai, I won't be surprised if it is back to hot weather tomorrow.
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