Over the course of this unusually rainy month of May, you may have asked yourself, “Is all this refreshing precipitation a fluke, or has Jalisco’s rainy season come to call a bit early”?
Well, never fear, because the University of Guadalajara’s meteorological team is near, and they say that, while the rains don’t really correspond to the “official” rainy season (roughly June-October), they do indicate that we’re in for an especially wet year.
While sporadic rains during the month of May aren’t unusual, the quantity of 2018’s downpours are, according to the UdG’s climate scientists. They say that by the end of the month the entire state of Jalisco will have received 20 to 30 percent more than its normal allotment of rainwater. And they further extrapolate from this prediction a corresponding 20-percent increase in rainfall during the year’s actual rainy season.
While rainfall levels will fluctuate over the course of the June-October rainy season, experts predict that October will be the period’s most waterlogged, with a whopping 40-percent increase from the average.