mleku @mleku - 3mo
#GM at last the long period of dry weather has come to an end, and the winds and drizzle have resumed early this morning in #boaventura #madeira it's not raining nearly enough for me to collect water though, i hope this will pick up but the forecast says we get some rain today and tomorrow and that's our lot for this week lol i hope it's wrong, i love the rain, it's the best part of living up here on the north of the island
notice also how the temperature range contracts during wet times and widens during dry... #madeira is actually a desert island except it's so tall that it forces water to drop on one side of it... but when there is no water blowed at it, it's a desert i grew up in subtropical climate and the levels of dry i see here remind me of northern serbia, in the summer everything is baked to a crisp and heavily depends on that initial spring rain and then all summer the water from the springs leaking back out of the mountains until it gets back to winter side when the water comes down and fills up the mountain again and when you plant all the grapes and bananas and vegetables, ready for the long dry summer again it's funny because this is generally considered to be a "continental" weather pattern but it definitely is in force on many islands in the temperate zone too
oh, also, note that this is funchal... the rain literally doesn't go over the top of the mountains that much so probably there will actually be rain here, maybe at least 2x as many rain days as shown there
