April Showers

As the rainy season looms ahead many "old" crew members have begun to prepare by either reflecting on what they hate about rainy season or by doing everything they can to deny it is on its way. All of the new kids on the block (those who have never experienced a true rainy season) have no idea what they are about to experience. How do you tell 70% of the crew that it will rain all day and all night and expect them to believe you? No one is prepared to believe that 3 weeks will pass and they will never see the sun. Even if you could really imagine the depressive-ness of the weather you would want to deny it at all cost.

So there are a lot of us weather veterans who are spending as much time outdoors as possible and mentally preparing for the lack of sunshine and the cabin fever that is soon approaching. This past week has been a very sudden reminder that the summer aka rainy season is near. The change in the weather has been very visible. While it is still as hot as Hades outside and the humidity is bouncy between 80 and 90 percent, the evening weather has changed dramatically. We have had a few nights when it has been pouring down rain and the sun is beginning to set earlier. Soon these evening showers will cease to stop and will run into the morning. And then that one full day will become two. And eventually it will be raining for weeks and the crew will start bouncing off of the walls with bordum. And the roads will start to wash away and the beach sand will erode.

Yet for now it is still sunny and from our dock we can still view downtown Monrovia (in full rainy season you can not see any buildings or lights from across the harbour). It seems the rain, rain has gone away for a few more weeks!