Summer comes late….
Whether global warming, El Niño, pesky argentinian cloud seeders or the Bolivians, Chile’s warmest month, February, has been wierd this year. It just wasn’t very warm. Or at least, not as warm as last year.
And then we had a thunderstorm- heard loud and clear but “unheard of” in Chile. And a four hour rain storm. That caused havoc for the building work going on in Santiago. And, as usual, brought deadlock on the roads. Although it helped to evade a potential drought warning- we are told that a hosepipe ban has been imposed once in the last 15 years and even then it was ignored. Either way, it doesn’t stop people watering their lawns, washing the leaves from their front porch (yes, washing!) or cleaning their cars, sometimes every day…..
Anyway, Santiago flees to the coast for summer. But they’ve almost all returned now, for the start of the school term. And what happens?
Yes, March starts off with 6 days of more than 30C. Its hot and sweaty.