Category: Weather & Climate

The winter season is drawing to its end. Last week we had typical transitional weather to summer. The sun was there throughout the week; still branches and leaves, and …

Cold weather (relatively colder than before) is prevailing since the beginning of the week. Strong winds accompanied by intermittent rainy periods are causing a sensation of chill, especially on …

Everybody’s shivering since yesterday. True it’s winter time; but it’s not that cold. The lowest temperature recorded last night was 13.7 deg C on the central plateau (middle and …

Temperature slightly above normal during the day; normal during the night in the first half of the season; and below normal during the night in the second half of …

The phenomenal waves that hit our island last weekend are expected to subside. Among the six missing, four were found dead. They were pushed ashore by the waves. One …

An unprecedented tidal wave hit the mascarene islands on Saturday night. Waves with average height of 5 to 6 metres and peaks of 10 to 11 metres caused considerable …

We are now in the transition period to winter, here in Mauritius. Nice period; getting cooler as we plunge into the middle months of the year, although on some …

Human health is vulnerable. It becomes even more vulnerable when climate and weather change. The effects of such change are becoming more evident. Reports indicate that the mean surface …

The study of weather and its impact on human, animal and plant lives has always fascinated man. Scientists and researchers over the world are always on the lookout for …

Tropical cyclone ‘Indlala” is evolving around latitude 13.0 degrees south and longitude 54.2 degrees east some 900 kilometres to the north-north-west of Mauritius. That was the position at 16.00 …