Thunder is rumbling, and a light, pleasant rain is falling. The rainy season has begun in Ajijic. Most residents say this is their favorite season. The preceding months are very hot, dry, and dusty. When the rains come, the air freshens, the hills turn green, the lake fills, and fills some more.
It usually rains at night. A lovely way to be lulled to sleep. The first year I lived here, I had to get up at night to watch the lightening. Now I just silently rejoice and fall into that pleasing feeling that comes when it’s storming outside and I’m safe and warm inside.
If this storm does signal the beginning of the rainy season, it will be a little early this year. It’s usually thought to start on June 15, and end on September 15. (I wrote this on about June 9.) But the rains do as they please. Usually, the water flows downhill and into the lake, but last year we had terrible floods. Some people lost their homes. A huge chunk of the road to my house fell away into never-never land.
We have semi-tropical weather here in the mountains of central Mexico. In December and January, it’s downright cold. In April, May and the first half of June, it’s hot and dry. Very dry. And then the rains come!
