You could call these the pre-monsoons. In any case, Goa is undecided (and divided) over whether the monsoons traditionally starts on June 5 or June 7.
But on the night of June 1, 2016, there was a bit of lightning, some thundering, and even some rain. Not the few drops that have been coming in a cloudburst during the previous weeks, but something a little more substantial. Here's hoping we have a decent, generous, not too skewed and non-violent monsoon in the coming year. The official weather predictions are a bit hard to believe at times; when they proclaim a drought year is round the corner, we in Goa tend to get drenched and vice versa. Also, the heavy downpours at certain points in the monsoons tend to skew the entire monsoon pattern, and make nonsense of it. Whatever the case, these are the weather patterns which, I guess, kept Goa what it is for many, many generations. Shaping not only our geography, but also our history. FN -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ Frederick Noronha | http://about.me/noronhafrederick | http://goa1556.in _/ P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha _/ Goa,1556 CC shared audio content https://archive.org/details/goa1556 _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
