The mercury is soaring and there is no sign of the well anticipated and customary summer showers that were once unique to Kerala weather. Blame it on global warming or the disappearing green cover over Kochi , but the bottom line reads that life is not going to be easy in cities in the days [...]
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Sleepless nights- the bane of city life!
Posted in Weather & Climate, tagged Kerala, Kochi, power cut, summer showers on March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Weather Drama in Cochin
Posted in Fort Cochin, Weather & Climate, tagged Kerala Monsoon on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Weather in Cochin rarely simply makes an entrance as drizzle. There is a drama and theatre to the Monsoon rains. The winds blows ominously, the clouds pile up and then, all hell breaks loose.
Monsoon returns… finally
Posted in Weather & Climate, tagged monsoon on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cochin streets, like all Indian streets are always filled with humanity… except when the rains fall. October and November are generally the time for the returning monsoon. Well they finally hit yesterday with a vengeance. Hopefully the rains will fill the backwaters and clear the Cochin canals of their human detritus and the carpets of [...]
Heat in Kerala
Posted in Politics in Kerala, Weather & Climate on November 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If you were in England now, you would be dreaming of the heat, but here ins Kerala, the daytime temperature is 37 or 38 degrees which, as they say here, is too too hot. Normally at this time of year there would be the returning monsoon which would give Kerala a second wash. This year, [...]
