Do I write often about the weather? Hmm…It’s the English in me. When you wake up in England, you ponder the sky, no matter the season. Do I need an umbrella, a raincoat, a jumper, shorts, a swimming costume, hiking boots or flip-flops? You can never be sure. And the gods will usually throw something unexpected at you. You can often leave in the morning thrice wrapped in scarf and gloves, to be sweltering in shirtsleeves my midday.
So, given my predilection for weather as a topic, no surprise that last night's Vietnamese downpour is a comment-worthy event. It started to rain last night around 9pm in the sort of torrential downpour which usually lasts an hour or so. It’s still going, volume and intensity unabated, and it’s now 7.29am. The accompanying window-frame-shaking thunder was spectacular, as I imagine the lightning would have been had I been bothered to stir myself from what passed for sleep to go and see. So it’s dark and wet and miserable, but at least still 30 degrees. I half expected to see rooftops and general flood scene this morning, but things seem to be as per…
The rainy season is due to end mid-November -ish. (It's not an exact science...)
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