It’s a first for me, and it provides an explanation as to the sudden and drastic change in the weather, it’s only a flipping tropical storm! Normal November weather in Mumbai is hot and clear in fact one would normally be happy to bet a months wages on the fact but clearly, nobody told the weather gods as I woke on Monday morning to overcast skies and yesterday morning it started to rain, by the evening it was like the monsoon again and continued so throughout the night, this morning its more of the same, dark grey skies emptying a more or less continual deluge of warm rain. The red dust has already reverted back to gloopy brown mud and people here are in general feeling very happy about it. By the monsoon end we were 15% down on the water required to get through until next monsoon and water rationing had already started, this then is a very welcome top up.
Not so for the migrant birds freshly arrived, exhausted and looking for the abundant food that is normally to be expected, the insect eaters will be especially affected.
The cyclone approaches! It will be directly over Mumbai at around midnight tonight and we are told to expect very heavy rains, high winds and a storm surge causing flooding. It’s a complete sod as was hoping to get away at the weekend however the forecast is for the rains to continue through until next week. Agghhh! Wherever I go this year it bleedin well rains….
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