Volume 15, Number 11
June 30, 2009

nature

Also in this section:
Caribbean governments' cooperation with each other and NGOs saves sea turtles
Now in season
Protecting hospitals and schools from disasters
Satellite monitoring of earthquake damage
Frontlines of climate change: an African river delta dries
Tropical cloudburst

Tropical cloudburst

Yes, there's a desert in the Azuero Peninsula if you appreciate that sort of thing in Panama. But for most of us, Panama is in the torrid zone of the tropics and we are into the season when days are often increasingly hot and muggy until, sometime in the afternoon, the sky turns very black and suddenly the rain comes down like this.

Then, more often than not, the rain suddenly stops and a light ocean breeze comes in to cool things off.

The really heavy rains usually start in about October and end in late December.

Photo by Eric Jackson

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