Mango shower

Mangos on our deck at Ekkamai

Yesterday my wife brought a couple of nice fresh yellow mangos in from the big old tree that pokes through our deck at our teak house here in Bangkok, and sure enough last night we had our first mango shower which broke the recent hot weather and, as one of our local twitter wits points out, gave our poor air conditioners a rest. This mango showers is an old and romantic weather term used from India to Cambodia, I remember it from my early days in Thailand fifty years ago. It refers to small afternoon or evening rains that begin usually in March, come along every week or two, sometimes with a growl of thunder, and take the edge off the hot season which bears down on us at this time of year.