This is the moment that Portuguese urbanites have always longed for: an uninterrupted succession of days of blue sky, which allows you to fully enjoy the terraces and “rooftops”. Gone are the misty, rainy mornings and harsh windy afternoons that forced shivering vacationing families off the beach, dragging weapons and luggage in a dejected procession reminiscent of the winter-ridden Grande Armée in Russia. When the sun goes down on the horizon, the air remains unperturbed, warm and calm, without disturbing the development of the “evening parties” and, as the night progresses and turns into dawn, the only “chill” will be the chill music , not the humid breeze caressing the nape of the neck. There will be no more weekend “getaways” marred by persistent downpours, and the invariably clean, stark light that falls from the sky will be ideal for taking the “selfies” that will prove on “Face” and “Insta” that we really were in Footbridges and Slate Towns of Paiva (see What if we could have 364 days of summer?).
For decades, many Portuguese dreamed of imitating José Saramago and moving to Lanzarote, not to write novels in peace or to pout at the country’s lack of recognition of their talent, but because the easternmost of the Canary Islands enjoyed an annual rainfall. average of 111 mm, only 19 days of rain per year and an average minimum temperature in January of 14º C. Now we have these conditions without leaving the country.
Big Axe, Lanzarote
There will be some drawbacks in this new state of affairs: in his column/weather station for the newspaper Público, Miguel Esteves Cardoso will have to find new topics to replace the objections against the rain that has the audacity to make an appearance at the end. October, the complaints about the frigid temperature of the sea water, the annoyance caused by the unbridled gale that prevents him from reading on the beach the twenty British magazines to which he still subscribes on paper, and the complaints that the weather in Colares it is not longer like the one in Palm Springs. . It could also happen that, on the terraces, the price of the arugula and avocado salad reaches exorbitant values (or -horror!- has been eliminated from the menu), since vegetables and fruits will become the “new normal” climatic” , a product of Lux. And it is possible that the prohibitions of “access, circulation and permanence within forest spaces”, promulgated by the Government-Big Brother during periods of very high risk of fires, will end up evolving towards the total closure of the interior of Portugal between the 1st of June and September 30, with the (rare) indigenous population temporarily relocated to camps and multipurpose pavilions on the coast.
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Source: Observadora
