Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Heat Waves and Rain Showers

Weather is awesome. No, seriously, if you think about it, weather is actually very cool. It's hard for me to say that I have a favorite season--although I always claim I love winter the best. Now, I'm not really sure what season I love best since they all have their merits.
Spring:
  • Flowers
  • RAIN!
  • Everything smells good
  • There's lots of baby animals, which are always pretty darn cute

Summer:

  • No school
  • Summer nights feel so good
  • You can go swimming
  • Everything is very green (unless there's a drought, and then everything's dead)

Fall:

  • All the leaves turn pretty colors
  • Days and nights are still pleasantly warm
  • Lots of good still growing

Winter:

  • Snow makes everything pretty
  • Ice skating
  • Snowball fights
  • It's nice and cold

Anyway, my point is that every season has it's good points. Here in Delhi it seems like there are only two seasons: a cold autumn and a very long, hot, humid summer. I like every kind of weather, but when it feels like one is dragging on for over half the year, that's just too much. Here in Delhi, summer starts at about the beginning of April, and it lasts until about the middle of October, and we get some pretty crazy heat waves during that time.

Right now, while it is starting to warm up considerably, the weather is still very nice and warm. This is helped by the infrequent rain showers that occur in Delhi. Take today for example: it was getting hot this morning, but then the clouds rolled in, a breeze picked up, and it drizzled for about 3 minutes. Now it's absolutely gorgeous outside. I'm just glad I won't be here during the summer vacation, when it's so unbearably hot, foreigners tend not to stray outside the comfort of their air conditioned living rooms.

Ok, so I'll cut through all that babbling, so you can get to the real message of this post. To put it simply:

Heat waves=BAD

Rain=GOOD

And I'm just hoping for a little more rain showers, and a lot fewer heat waves, for my last two months in Delhi.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Can I just say I completely agree! If I wasn't mormon I would definitely be praying to the weather gods to bless India with unseasonably cool weather while I'm there. And hey, it would be an awesome senior present from the weather gods to you. :)