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TN sizzles under oppressive heat, season's high of 108 Deg F scorches Chennai

Chennai, May 21 (UNI) After a Low Pressure area last week that brought good rains in southern and cauvery delta districts for a few days leading to significant reduction in mercury level, dog days returned to haunt several parts of Tamil Nadu, with 17 districts reeling under sweltering heat wave, recording temperatures in excess of 100 Deg F, with Chennai city topping the list, touching the season's highest ever 42 Deg C (about 108 Deg F, 107.6 to be precise) on Wednesday.
In an update Met office today said, while the Chennai Meenambakkam observatory saw spike in temperatures by three-four degrees touching 108 Deg F, the City's Nungambakkam Observatory, did not lag behind as the heat wave was equally unbearable with the mercury level touching 105.6 Deg F, also the highest this season for this teeming megapolis.
Over the day, the interior districts and North interior districts like Vellore and Tiruttani had been bearing the brunt of the heat wave conditions before and after the onset of peak summer season "Kathiri " on May four recording temperatures in the104-106 Deg F range, for once Chennai has overtaken it pushing to the second spot.
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