June 13, 2006
The Last Rain?
It rained last week.
Nothing special. Just rain. The sky clouded up, it got very windy, then it rained. For maybe ten minutes. Enough to water the flowers, not enough to clean the car.
But there's a good chance that might have been the last rain.
See, Armenia has these long hot summers. Long hot dry summers. Long hot dry summers with very little rain. Or none at all.
We look at the weather forecast most mornings. For a week now, the five day forecast has been the same. "Chance of precipitation: 0%... 0%... 0%".
That's expected to continue until sometime in September.
I've lived in some odd places for weather. The Marianas Islands. Upstate Maine. London. But this is a first. That modest shower may have been the last rain for a hundred days or so. This is probably no big deal for our readers in Arizona or the Galapagos Islands, but it's new and a bit freaky for me.
August temperatures here regularly go over 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), BTW. So, watch for a post in a few weeks: "But At Least It's /Dry/ Heat."
Posted by douglas at June 13, 2006 12:48 PM