Weather!

So, for the many of you who are not paying any attention to the weather here in El Salvador, I thought I’d give you a brief idea of what’s going on. We are currently in invierno, or winter, which means the rainy season. Verano should start soon, by mid November at the latest. The thing that provoked my blog entry on this subject is that we have the most killer lightning pretty much every evening right now! Multiple forks extending all across the sky, frequent enough that trying to catch a picture of them is not impossible (I will try again soon). The thunder that follows is frequently quite impressive as well.

I think that during our entire time down here so far, only one 24 hour period has been lightning free, or rain free. The rain pretty much is limited to the evening or night, with very few rain showers during the day. So far we have only once been briefly caught in the rain. For the most part the showers are violent, but over fairly quickly, so you just have to wait somewhere for a short while at worst.

The only thing you really notice during the rain showers is that conversation is almost impossible due to the sound of the rain hitting the roofs (which in the post 2001 earthquake construction, seems to be mostly made of a thick fiberglass). When you dodge into someplace to escape the rain, it can be fun trying to explain anything, or just having small talk, especially in our poor Spanish!

It will be weird to see how our world will change with the ceasing of the rain… that’s what happens fairly soon, verano is no rain at all until around May. What is fresh and verdant now, will be dusty and dead looking all to soon.