Vai Chover!

It has been really hot recently. When we arrived, it was quite fresh, with nights at 15 degrees maybe, and days below 25. We needed covers at night, and long sleeves and pants during the day. Then after a couple weeks, the weather just became all a sudden more hot, including during the nights.
In fact the whole region has been under a drought warning for quite a few weeks, there has been no rain for a long time - probably more than 3 months. I did not really expect the heat, as I did not read about extreme weather in Brasilia, rather about a more temperate and even weather, year-long. The heat at 12 o'clock has been important; Noam described it as "hot like if-I-was-being-baked-in-the-oven hot". It was a bit surprising to me to hear him talk in these terms. Our time in Israel earlier this summer, with its blaring 40 degrees at 9 AM, has somewhat rendered me immune to this more reasonable heat; it was so cooking hot over there that these mere 35 degrees are not too cooking hot. Yet, the reduced amount of humidity in the air (less than 20%) is a real problem, posing a health threat to the weaker ones, giving headaches to many, and simply making everyone more tired and cranky. In schools, the government requested to limit all physical education and physical activities, to limit the movements of kids to avoid further dehydration. In the French School, the balls and small tricycles were put away.
And everyone has been waiting for the rain, hoping for it to come soon.
Finally today, at lunch time, it has showed its feathers in a few lovely drops... I looked up, the sky was gorgeous, with the clouds and the sun rays battling up there. And tonight the rain has really arrived, full on, tropical way, with thunder and lightnings, the wind gushing across our place.
Oh! does it feel good to feel this breeze! Oh! does it smell nice and refreshing!