Sunday, April 24, 2011

Climate Change in Namibia?

The weather has definitely been changing over the last few weeks. We are in the middle of fall now, and it has become very obvious with the weather. With fall, sunset is early. We had a beautiful Easter Sunday today, but it was tempered a bit by the fact that it was completely dark by 6:00. The rainy season was supposed to be over at least a month ago. But try telling that to Mother Nature! For the last two weeks or so, we’ve had frequent cold rain/hail/thunderstorms. I can deal with the slightly cooler weather, but not with cold weather and rainstorms. During the rainy season it rained every day for an hour or so during the afternoon or at night. But now, it will rain most of the day, and a lot harder than it has been. I feel like I’m back in Washington! We’ve gotten so much rain that Windhoek doesn’t seem to be able to manage it. The bedroom on the first floor is flooding because there has been such an increase in groundwater, that it is seeping through the floor and into the house. Houses in Windhoek are not built to withstand this much rain. Is this the future of Namibia with climate change?

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