Rain!

It is the wet season, for sure. When it is raining it is raining like really raining. You can leave your house in sunshine and then a few minutes later the sky just gets covered by heavy dark clouds and then it starts poring down, and in minutes the streets is covered by water and the drains is struggling to contain it all. People are used to it though and they just take out their umbrella and continue their business and the small newspaper salesman just cover up his stand with a plastic curtain and wait. Sometimes it doesn't stop for some hours, but normally it a matter of 15 to 20 minutes or so and then it over, for a while. This year it hasn't been as bad as last year, where it was nearly raining constantly from may and till we went back to Europe on holiday at the end of June. This year it has been more on and of, and we've had some nice -but hot and humid- days in between the rain falls.
Here an umbrella is efficient though, as the rain just comes down vertically, and not like in northern Europe, where the wind would blow it horizontally in to your face anyway, but you must remember just to wear shorts and flip flops on your feet, as they get wet and soaked anyway, but as it is warm it doesn't bother.