Archive for the ‘Weather & Climate’ Category
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It always surprises people in the US when I tell them that our hottest season is about now…. April, May, and early June, until the rainy season begins sometime in June.
It’s been plenty hot this year. Lately it’s been getting [...]
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When this email by Gloria Mathai, who has lived in the Lake Chapala area since 1970, was forwarded to me by a friend, I wrote and got Gloria’s permission to post it here on my blog. She has seen a lot!
In my time here, there have been four serious trombas (waterspouts) in El Limon/San Juan [...]
May 30, 2007 – What are these two topics doing together?
They’ve been on our minds during our northward trip from our home near Lake Chapala to Kelly’s childhood home in Idaho.
The day that we left Jalisco, we got into Mazatlan in the late afternoon and found a thirty-year-old Mexican hotel where we got a beachfront [...]
Feb. 4, 2007 — Average monthly temperatures and precipitation, in degrees Fahrenheit and in inches. I don’t remember where I found this data online.
Month
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
High Temp.
76
79
81
84
86
83
79
79
78
79
78
76
Low Temp.
47
49
50
54
58
61
60
60
59
55
49
47
Precipitation
0.5
0.2
0.2
0.3
1
6.3
9.7
7.6
5.8
2.3
0.4
0.5
These numbers are interesting. Note that March, April, especially May and June are the hottest months. Once the rains begin it cools off, so the months that we think of [...]
July 13, 2006 — It’s the rainy season around Lake Chapala now, and we are loving it… mostly. People say that it usually rains just in the evening and night, and we are noticing that pattern, at least a couple of days a week. The other day, it poured hard one morning when we were [...]
July 24, 2006 — With record-breaking heat waves across the US lately, and California currently sweltering, I wonder how many Americans realize that it’s way cooler here in Mexico in the summertime. Not, of course, in every part of Mexico, but here at 5000 feet and with the rainy season in full sway, it’s downright [...]
June 10, 2006 – A few weeks ago Kelly and our friend John went hiking in the steep mountains behind our house and they reported on a strange electronic sort of sound they heard up there. John captured a little of it on a video in his camera but they couldn’t see the source.
Later, we started [...]
August 5, 2005 – People often ask us, “Isn’t it awfully hot in Mexico in the summer?”
Not in the central mountains where we rent a house. I’ve been checking the temperature in Queretaro, a city less than an hour’s drive from our town of Bernal, for the past couple of weeks, just for fun. It’s [...]
May 25, 2005 – Central Mexico has essentially quite an arid type climate but it rains from roughly May or June to September or so here in Bernal. It normally rains from time to time outside of these months, but in the three months we’ve been here, it’s only rained a couple of times. Once [...]
