Well, maybe not. After a few very nice days we are suddenly beset with dark clouds which have literally brought on darkness at 4pm followed by thunder, lightning and torrential rain which flooded the streets. Yikes! It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!
In fact there's a lot of interest here in global climate change, aka global warming. With air pollution a clear problem it is a lot easier to connect the dots. Also the monsoon itself is one of the more obvious examples of how a warmer atmosphere can dramatically change the weather. Warmer temperatures put more water into the air which increases the ferocity of the monsoon. As more water is poured down in India, more water is sucked out of the upper atmosphere from farther away due to convection and so less falls elsewhere. Hence, floods in the subcontinent and droughts in the Middle East.
Compared to the global climate crisis and the very real disasters that have plagued low-lying areas of southern Asia, the downpour and resulting flooded street which delayed my journey home this week is nothing, but it was an interesting ride.
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