One of the major things that seems to be wrong with this year is the weather. I don’t just get it, but nothing seems to be working as it should. We’ve been having irregular weather for months and it’s becoming alarming because from experience, things like this only get worse with time, never better.
The first oddity I noticed was the prolonged rainfall. The rainy season should have ended sometime around September and October, but that was not the case. It kept raining heavily until late November. Every time, we thought the most recent rain would be the last one. But at night, the heavens will open up and empty its bowels upon us again.
It seems to have finally stopped now, but things are still irregular. This is December and as such we should be experiencing harmattan. However, all we get is harsh sunlight and lots of heat. Everyone is complaining about the intense heat, and it’s just frustrating. Especially with the epileptic power supply we have in this country.
Do you know how annoying it can be to bathe in cold water so as to combat the heat, but mere minutes later, it begins to feel like you did nothing? Yeah, that’s the reality of what we’ve been facing for a while now. The only way to escape from this is to power your gen and turn your fan or AC on full blast. That is the only way to keep the heat at bay.
Honestly, I have no idea what is happening. In the past, around this time, my biggest problem would have been to not forget to rub body cream so I wouldn’t have dry skin. During harmattan, dry skin cracked easily and it could lead to injuries. Many times, the lips were the worst hit in this area. So, many of us used lip gloss. Even I used to carry one about at the time, I would sneak my sister’s lip gloss out and use it in school.
Back then, harmattan was also a season to wear hoodies to school for no reason. Because the weather was cold, you could easily lie that you were feeling sick and needed it. So many of us wore hoodies back then, and it was not to combat the cold. Although, it did come in handy when the harmattan got too much.
If things were normal, by now we would be having later mornings because dawn would always be foggy. Bathing cold water in the morning should be impossible because the water would be chilled as if it were from the freezer. In situations like that, you’ll bathe in water so hot that you’d almost boil yourself in the bathroom, and still, it won’t be enough, because the moment it stops running, the cold comes back with a vengeance!
The harmattan has always been a December thing, and seeing as it’s a time many of us travel to our villages, we experience it in its rawest and truest forms. Especially in areas with lakes and rivers, they’re always the worst hit.
This year, however, everything seems to be different. The sun is harsh and always shining bright as if it’s battery no dae die. If you get dry skin, it’s probably because of the excess heat. And then, at night, all the accumulated heat comes back to the fore and makes it miserable for everyone. Honestly, I don tire!!
But then, there’s nothing we can do. It’s not like I’ll leap into the sky and reconfigure the atmosphere. However the weather chooses to be, that’s how we’ll take it. No choice. December is still early though, so I believe that there’s a lot of time for Harmattan to show up. I hope it won’t be one of those times when Harmattan would fail to turn up in December, but then show up briefly in February.
Either way, we’re game. Whatever it’s gonna be, we’re down for it. I guess we just have to see how it goes.
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Thank you for this.
My friend and I were complaining about this a few days ago. The change in weather is getting out of hand and alarming. There is nothing like predicting the weather anymore because everything has changed compared to how we met it.
Everyone and everything as acting as they please now, including the weather. Just annoying!!
Like seriously 🙃
You really cracked me up with this post, but honestly you are right what kind of abnormality is this? Though there was a year, I once witnessed rain fall in December but that was long ago.
Down here, there is so much heat, yet you dare not bathe and not rub cream, you would be as white as snow in no time. Usually harmattan is associated with cold breeze, the weather is chill, we crave for the nights because you would enjoy rolling inside your blankets but this year reverse is the case, I just pray this harmattan won't show up in February like you already predicted though
Hmm... you're even getting harmattan. We're not getting even that at all. Here, in the morning even before the sun is out, you can already feel the heat in the air, telling you that it's going to be a sunny day.
Hehhe, seems we are so lucky down here then
Honestly, I don’t like Harmattan. It is always dry and I’m asthmatic so I loosely cough during this period. I am coughing already Sef
Hah... I guess this weather is for you na. Enjoy!!😁
Ow, In my country the situation is almost similar. In the summer the sun seems very angry that the temperature has risen so high that it has broken all the records of the past. In the rainy season, floods happened for several times when in the past it used to happen only once time in a year. And now the winter season just started and it's sizzling in the last few days and the weather report says that tomorrow there will be rain and the coldness will also increase with it. I think the blow of winter is coming like the GOT series. So "Winter is coming🤣".
Winter is coming indeed... let it come biko, we need it! Because this excess heat is something else. And I'm tired!!
I actually noticed the kinda unusual late seasons last year, but this year's own is so obvious. The raining season this year was too stretched ahhh😂😂.
I hope the weather changes soon.
Or maybe whoever is in charge of the weather has gone on holiday as well. After all, everyone likes good things.😁
😂😂😂😂
I don't so much like cold weather especially harmattan where I virtually turned white no matter how I rub cream. It's harsh on me.
Happy Christmas