For the real Met forecast BBC is better. And while Goans say "solid rain, too much rain..." As a child and teenager this is the only monsoon I knew In Goa Rain for five days, eight days, ten days... at a stretch was the real Goan monsoon W
Sent from my iPad Pro www.wendellrodricks.com Address: Wendell Rodricks, Campal, Panjim, Goa. 403001. INDIA Off: +91-832-2420604 Shop:+91-832-2238177 E-retail: wendellrodricks.com > On 20-Jul-2017, at 12:00 AM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * > فريدريك نورونيا <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tuesday and Wednesday (July 18-19, 2017) were rather windy days here in > Goa... Tuesday afternoon particularly saw a lot of storm-like rain. Dunno > if that's the right term, but that's how it hit us. As usual, there don't > seem to have been any warnings of what was in store. > > On Monday, the local Met office came out with its weather forecast "for > five days" and said "light to moderate rain/thundershowers is (sic) most > likely to occur at most places over Goa state during (the) next five > days". Of course, this is the monsoons, so it's going to be "light to > moderate rain/thundershowers". That is a vague choice of rain possibilities. > > On June 18 (a bit too late), it warned that "winds will be westerly to > south westerly speed 45-50 kmph temporarily reaching 60 kmph in > gust/squall". > > For much of the season, we've been having a strange set of rains here, with > short showers of five-minutes rain interspersed with sunny (almost summer) > spells. FN > > -- > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > _/ > _/ Frederick Noronha * Independent Journalist > _/ P +91-832-2409490 M 91-9822122436 > _/ Twtr @fn Fbk: fredericknoronha > _/ Audio: https://archive.org/details/goa1556 > _/ > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
