The Rains Arrive

For the first to months of our stay, Lilongwe is HOT and dry. Ninety degrees in the shade at midday hot.  Sleep without even a sheet, good thing for the bed net hot. Overnight, the rainy season arrives and the weather changes.

Benefits:

- Gorgeous, moist, seventy degree days with cloud cover and twice daily showers (mostly gentle, occasionally heavy)

- Lovely, cool nights (with even some blanket utilization!)

- Enthusiastically growing pumpkins (which I previously struggled to even keep alive until Nathaniel’s return from Liberia)

Drawbacks:

- Swarms of new bugs (ZIPPY stink bug looking guy, armies of one-inch almost-moths with transparent wings, flying ants and, of course, malaria bearing mosquitoes)

- Red clay mud (enough said)

Still, on the whole I vote “Yes!” for the rainy season. We’ll see how I feel three months in…