It has been brutally hot here for a few weeks. Not just, we-are-not-used-to-Guam's-tropical-climate hot, but even-Guamanians-are-complaining-that-it-is-unseasonably-hot hot. It has been unbearable. Outdoors like an oven; go to bed at 8:30 because it's exhausting to be this hot all the time; move little, speak little, feel little but hot, hot, hot; the sky so blue that it burns. Drought, the worst in twelve years; water restrictions; fires everywhere; columns of smoke dotting the island, hot ashes falling on Hagatna.
Then, yesterday, a cloud came - a new kind of cloud, a cloud that blocked the sun with darkness that cooled the air. I noted it as I drove home. Guam felt different. A change in the sky. A whisper of cleaner air - could this be...?
Last night, we noticed that the wind had shifted; airplanes were taking off in a different direction; high clouds hurried across the sky but held together, building, billowing; something we hadn't seen happen before. Could it be...?
Today, rain.
Could it be the rainy season has come at last?
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Best luck, but be careful what you wish for, as they say.
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