The transition from summer to autumn in northern Portugal follows a remarkably predictable pattern. It's like a switch where the weather goes from sunny and dry to grey and rainy. The transition is usually from one day to another, as was the case this year, and it happens mid October, give or take a few days.
What follows is three months with a lot of rain. This is followed by a gradual decrease in rain until summer comes back in June.
There are of course variations and exceptions to this. Some five years ago, we saw the transition from summer to autumn happen on November 2. That was so late and unusual that it got a lot of attention from experts and laymen alike. Everybody could agree that this was strange.
This year, we had the summer weather end with a heat wave. That too is unusual. But the transition to autumn weather came right on time. It's almost as if the heat wave was thrown into our last summer days as a compensation for an otherwise cool summer.
.jpg#/media/File:Sun_(Earth_POV).jpg "Sun") |
| Sun |
No comments:
Post a Comment