January 20, 2014
Liberia is now in the dry season. The weather is mostly influenced by the Harmattan wind which is a dry and dusty West African trade wind. This northeasterly wind blows from the Sahara into the Gulf of Guinea between the end of November and the middle of March (winter). Temperatures can drop so the nights can be cool. Mostly the days are hot and getting hotter.
What I notice is the fine red dust which seems to always be in your nose our on your lips. You especially notice it a night when your mouth is dry and dusty. Car and trucks on the dirt road just outside my house just add a little more of that red dust.With your windows always open and a tile floor, you any moisture quickly becomes a red foot print. Washing even seemly clean clothes results in the ugliest wash water you have ever seen. Sweeping, mopping, and washing are now my primary recreational activities.
This is also road construction time.The Chinese are building roads throughout the country, making travel more adventuresome than usual.They already are trucking out large quantities of iron ore and are challenging Firestone Tire and its rubber tree plantations for preeminence.
When I arrived in August, it was the rainy season with lots of rain and humidity. I can see why Liberians prefer the dry season, heat and dust are preferable to rain and everything being constantly damp.
Liberia is now in the dry season. The weather is mostly influenced by the Harmattan wind which is a dry and dusty West African trade wind. This northeasterly wind blows from the Sahara into the Gulf of Guinea between the end of November and the middle of March (winter). Temperatures can drop so the nights can be cool. Mostly the days are hot and getting hotter.
What I notice is the fine red dust which seems to always be in your nose our on your lips. You especially notice it a night when your mouth is dry and dusty. Car and trucks on the dirt road just outside my house just add a little more of that red dust.With your windows always open and a tile floor, you any moisture quickly becomes a red foot print. Washing even seemly clean clothes results in the ugliest wash water you have ever seen. Sweeping, mopping, and washing are now my primary recreational activities.
This is also road construction time.The Chinese are building roads throughout the country, making travel more adventuresome than usual.They already are trucking out large quantities of iron ore and are challenging Firestone Tire and its rubber tree plantations for preeminence.
When I arrived in August, it was the rainy season with lots of rain and humidity. I can see why Liberians prefer the dry season, heat and dust are preferable to rain and everything being constantly damp.
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