The Little Dry Season

Well, not long after I wrote a post on the coming of the rainy season here in southern Cameroon, it suddenly stopped raining.

As it turns out, there are actually two rainy seasons and two dry seasons in this part of the country. There is the Big Dry Season, which lasts from November til about March, which I described here (link). It's followed by the Little Rainy Season, which I described in the aforementioned post.

The Little Rainy Season is then followed by the Little Dry Season, which we are in now, and which lasts from June until about September. The Little Dry Season is not as dry as the Big Dry Season. We've gotten a tiny bit of rain (drizzles mostly) and it is usually very cloudy. It always looks like it's getting ready to rain but never does. Kind of a weird feeling.

I'm told that after the Little Dry Season ends around September, we will enter the Big Rainy Season, which will be a lot like the Little Rainy Season, except ... bigger, and which will last until the Big Dry Season starts in November.