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 _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/