How does Chennai cope with its extreme heat, humidity and delayed sea breeze? | Urban Heatscapes
Down To Earth 
Chennai, less than 1500km from the equator, is a city where the sun never seems to take a break and instead crashes down like an angry wave impacting daily lives and livelihoods. Delayed sea breezes and rising night temperatures makes matters worse as they leave the city sweltering around the clock. Add to it another silent killer; humidity.
Down To Earth’s Shreya K A and Prabhat Kumar travelled to Chennai to understand how the city and its citizens are coping and adapting to this dangerous combination of heat and humidity. In this episode, Down To Earth takes a closer look at how Chennai’s population, especially the coastal communities are adjusting to these scorching and perspiring summers and what steps are being taken to help the city’s residents survive this heat index.
How does Chennai cope with its extreme heat, humidity and delayed sea breeze? | Urban Heatscapes
Down to Earth is Science and Environment fortnightly published by the Society for Environmental Communication, New Delhi. We publish news and analysis on issues that deal with sustainable development, which we scan through the eyes of science and environment.
source
About The Author
When we talk about heat, we only about rising temperatures but heat is much more than that. You can scape hot sun by taking a shade but u can't scape humidity.
And the fact that it's not just Chennai alone, every major cities of India is going through the same phase makes it so worse, and we still don't recognise it
Good report
In Tamil Nadu I like the "kongunadu" region because of the cool weather.
Calling it a state specific disaster at least will give some relief but only when they die right? Human consciousness needs to rise for the vulnerable to be protected
More focus should be on What we can do. chennai has a forest cover of only 5.28%
Common sense,don't construct high rises. You have to have stricter rules.
Inshallah ☝️ Tamilnadu we are coming soon from Bangladesh ❤🤲🏻
Plant more trees. ,use terracotta roof ,return to sanatan darma