Looks a Lot like Home

A good friend and colleague in NC, who taught me how to use the Nikon I bought before coming to Bangalore in the parking deck of our building, has sent some pictures from home. DR is an excellent photographer and you should be so lucky to see his collection of nature and so many other shots. He has some that capture lightning in a pitch black night sky that are amazing!

He snapped this past week, a basically professional shot of the clouds of a summer sky in NC, posted here above. These are very typical of monsoon clouds in Bangalore. The summer rain storms and seasons are actually very comparable between the 2 cities. Though other parts of India get a lot more rain, and Bangalore inches recorded for most June-Sept months is a bit higher than NC, it is not that different. When I heard “monsoon season”, I thought it would be raining practically day and night, and yet basically we get the same afternoon (sometimes heavy) showers that we get in NC. (Also note that this season was supposedly a late monsoon season with not as much rainfall recorded.)

Below is a representation of what the sky looks like most days in Bangalore, June through September. With a 2nd shot of southern India. Almost always cloudy, but not torrential winds and rain like I imagined “monsoon season” to be. My umbrella is not turning inside out or anything. (And again, monsoon season in other parts of India could be completely different.)