Another lovely May passed! as usual the heavy May showers announce the start of the rainy season. This year it was particularly heavy, it rained for 12 days, non stop, day and night!
Ok, we got the message mother nature, the rainy season started! But June came about! and as usual we have beautiful and sunny blue skies! Today is amazing day, it´s warm and sunny, the birds are happy and singing and you can hear the bees doing their job (I know it sounds like a Disney´s movie) but it´s that nice here!
For those not familiar with tropical weather, I´ll try to explain it as simple as possible: The Tropics is a designated area around the earth between 23.5° north latitude (Tropic of Cancer) and 23.5 south latitude (Tropic of Capricorn). This is the area of the earth that gets the most direct sunlight during the earths yearly revolution around the sun. Anyone living in this area receives more direct sun rays and the sun passes more directly overhead during the yearly cycle. In the Boquete area, the sun is most directly overhead in early April and mid August of each year.
Ok, we got the message mother nature, the rainy season started! But June came about! and as usual we have beautiful and sunny blue skies! Today is amazing day, it´s warm and sunny, the birds are happy and singing and you can hear the bees doing their job (I know it sounds like a Disney´s movie) but it´s that nice here!
For those not familiar with tropical weather, I´ll try to explain it as simple as possible: The Tropics is a designated area around the earth between 23.5° north latitude (Tropic of Cancer) and 23.5 south latitude (Tropic of Capricorn). This is the area of the earth that gets the most direct sunlight during the earths yearly revolution around the sun. Anyone living in this area receives more direct sun rays and the sun passes more directly overhead during the yearly cycle. In the Boquete area, the sun is most directly overhead in early April and mid August of each year.
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Since the Boquete District is on the leeward side of the mountains relative to the Caribbean cloud systems, the moisture that gets pushed over from the Caribbean side usually comes in the form of a mist or light rain that is locally called the “bajareque.” It is a fine but very wet mist. During the wet season, mornings are often clear with notable cumulonimbus cloud systems forming in the south over the Pacific coast-line. By afternoon these clouds become fully developed thunderstorm systems that often move inland (northward) from David pushed by southerly winds and sea breezes. These towering systems make their climb (orographic lifting) into the Boquete District. They dump their heavy rains along the way from David and upward toward the Talamanca Range. A more typical day during the wet season in the Boquete District is to wake up to generally clear skies and sunshine. As the day progresses, you see cumulous clouds developing in the south and then growing into towering cumulonimbus systems. By mid afternoon, the cloud systems move into the area and rain falls. The thunderstorm rains last for varying amounts of time, but usually not more than a couple of hours. Slow steady stratus cloud rains from from the Caribbean are unusual but occasionally occur during the wet season.
| If you are not bored by now, you can better understand our weather a little better now. Those heavy seasonal rains as well as the always present "Bajareque" is what allows the thousands of green shadows that you can see everywhere in Boquete. They are responsible for the lush and exotic plants and flowers and that´s what keeps our valley green and exotic year round. Because of the valley and the mountains, you are able to enjoy rainbows almost every day of the year; there are times that up to three simultaneous rainbows can be spotted in Boquete. And, if you are lucky enough, you´ll be able to witness one of the rarest and most beautiful displays of nature: A night rainbow against a full moon!!! So, what are you waiting for! come to Boquete and enjoy this amazing work of nature, our rainy season is beautiful and ever changing, it let us witness that our planet still has balance and that even though we are doing our best to unbalance it, mother nature still find equilibrium. | 
Boquete is still almost untouched by our evil human hand. Help us keep it that way! Don´t litter, eat natural local food, travel by foot or bike, and enjoy what nature still has to offer. La Casa de la Abuela is waiting for you!! (and come to enjoy our reduced rates this season!!) |
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