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[sickbag]

We just had out first rainfall since November here in Puebla. A pleasure for our long suffering garden and hopefully a sign of the rainy season to come (if a little early). Just thought I'd share our relief at the end of a long, dry and very hot winter.

Anybody else out there experiencing wet weather?

[ls650]

We won't see any here for a while yet... like May.

[MELEE]

We don't get rain until at least June, often July.

But they say febrero loco y marzo otro poco meaning that you can get any weather in Feb. and early March. We did have an unusual week of rain in February this year.

[Guy Courchesne]

I don't recall ever seeing March rain in DF in my 6 years here...and we got some today. It took many of the jacaranda blossoms off the trees though and left a chocolate smelling carpet of purple on my street.

[J Sevigny]

A farmer here told me that the rainy season starts in Guadalajara on May 23.

[cangringo]

Rainy season here is August and September I think but we see rain all year. There has been a lot this year especially over the winter and the temps were cold until about a month ago. Phew, it's finally heating up and getting dry.

[sickbag]

[hlamb]

It's been hotter than usual here too until yesterday when it was cloudy and a bit humid (nothing like the coast) and today when he had a bit of thunder and rain. It's early but no unheard of.

[sarliz]

Wind blew in some angry-looking clouds the other afternoon, and I commented to my students that I hoped it wasn't going to rain because I didn't have an umbrella on me. They all just chuckled at the silly midwesterner gringa trying to make Chicago weather rules apply in Oaxaca and said it wouldn't happen. They were right, of course. I don't think we're allowed to have rain here for another couple of months.

[MELEE]

We got a downpour with hail at about 2 am, followed by hours of drizzel that let up at 7.30. It's still overcast and cloudy. Did Oaxaca City get rain Sara? The key to "looks like rain" in Oaxaca is the height of the clouds. If they are high in the sky, doesn't matter how thick or menacing they are it's not going rain. If they are low, and sitting on the tops of the surronding mountains, you can be pretty sure that they are going to drop rain on you as they move down the mountains.

[sarliz]

Ah, excellent pointers for knowing when to take the umbrella, Melee, thanks. And unless it was a very quiet shower in the middle of my deep, deep slumber last night, I'd say nope, we're still dry and having yet another sunny day with scattered puffy white clouds. Do the weather people here have breakdowns a la Steve Martin in LA Story eventually?

[MELEE]

Weather people?

Oh, you mean the girl in the bikini on the morning news!

Actually I live right by a weather station, the meterologist works 6 hours a day as a taxi driver, because he can't earn enough as a meterologist. But he doesn't quit entirely because he seems to really enough collecting startling climate change data.

[hlamb]

We had a big storm here last night. The streets were like rivers and there was a fair amount of thunder and lightning too. Everything looks fresh and green this morning.

[sarliz]

Oaxaca rain update: (riveting, I know.) This afternoon at 5:30 or so, those aforementioned low-flying clouds opened up on us with a vengance. For about an hour, it was as if the clouds were trying to drown the city. My 6 o'clock class had 3 of its 10 students. Now it's calm and drizzly, and we'll see if everything is green and glorious tomorrow.

[Guy Courchesne]

If you're going to report Mexican weather, Sarliz, it'll have to be in a bikini.



Sure seems like rainy season...nice sunny mornings, afternoon showers round here...except today it was a morning shower.