There was surprise and blessing as we landed in native place for our summer visit of the year. The hot and humid weather was at its peak. It was no different in heart of rainforest of Shiradi Ghat too! Zero clouds and sun blazing through the calm forest
The dark clouds in evening showed signs of providing temporary respite from the sweltering weather. It did rain for a while and thus accentuating the humid weather. We thought that rain is done for day and unsure of its next presence. Summer rains can be weird and unpredictable. One drizzle and rains may abscond for weeks. Here are some shots of skies from that day.
As the sun slipped beneath the western horizon, the heavens echoed with a deep, rolling rumble, heralding the approaching storm. The lightning grew sharp and thunder started roaring. In a few minutes, rains started pelting too! We had torrential rains lasting for 45 minutes and relief for the entire night!
Although I couldn't grab the rain moments due to risky show in sky, I went for a long walk to aftermath of rains next day. Here are some morning musings!
The weather was cloudy but atmosphere was fresh. There was hope of more rains looking at the sky!
The summer rains are aptly called as mango showers. The loose mango hanging on the tree fall due to the wind as well as the force of the rain. We have a lot of mangoes on the tree, but only few mango showers. Most probably these mangoes are still in nascent stage.
There are no puddles, but the ground is considerably moisturized, primarily because we had thrashing rains for nearly more than an hour. Even after 12 hours of rain stop and prolonged dry season, the ground is still wet!
That was really a long rain. It started with the light rain. Then it stopped all of a sudden. We thought the game is over and we'll have to bear the humid weather for rest of the day and we'll have to wait till the next day evening to expect some more rains. But the nature did not betray us. It rained, rain, it rained massively for the next one, one and a half hours. And us really getting a, providing us a temporary relief from humidity. The fallen leave holding up the rainwater was one of the testament to the overnight rain.
Thanks to healthy overnight rains, the ground is sufficiently wet. The negative side is that we don't have power yet, but hopefully it resumes soon. Finally, a reprieve, a short reprieve, we can say, from the humid weather. The day is cloudy and still hot, triggering hopes of further rains. There are forecasts till 31st of this month, and hopefully it materializes. Even the most tortured part of the ground, which is battered by sun, is wet thanks to the energitic show from rain gods. Hope we see a healthy monsoon season as well, alongside the summer rains.
Plenty of dried leaves strewn all across the road. It may be because of falling from the trees, or maybe the strength of the rain water which has pushed those leaves from sideways to the main road. Whatever may be, but it shows the might of nature presented yesterday.
Not only smaller ones, even the nascent leaves of coconut tree also seen downfall thanks to windy rains. Remember, however invincible you may feel, there is always someone mightier standing in your path.
And don't underestimate anything provided by nature. Anything dried on the ground has more value today, thanks to the ongoing war, which is blocking the crude supplies. And people use it for different purposes, like boiling water, and to some extent, the cooks for cooking as well. For large-scale cooking, people use firewood nowadays in our village. And it's been, it's like we are going to primitive, we are going regressive. It may be a good thing or bad thing, but the time is the king and never forget the roots. The food for the large gatherings nowadays are primarily prepared on the firewoods, and cooks are told to get accustomed to that due to the shortage of LPG cylinders. We need need to get adjusted. The war may close down soon or may not, but it's a lesson to us. Look for alternative kinds of energies and also not to ignore where we started from. So nothing is obsolete. It's all the time which start revolving and may come back to the same pattern.
The nature would be the happiest including the cattle egrets. The ground will soon turn green which will provide them temporary food supply for a few days.
All the feeble vegetation have found liberation after this rain. . The rains are a must, especially they bring a lot of joy when they are sparse. They are sparse. Even though you store, you have multiple sources of water sourced from somewhere, the ground vegetation needs the rain. Even though you manually water them, it doesn't fit for them. They need rain. They bloom only when there are at least there are intermittent rains. It's not that they can thrive in only manually watering. The rains are a must for them.
First rain of season doesn't make large impact, but triggers lot of positive hope for future.
