Manzanillo Rainy Season

General

Information and news about Manzanillo and surrounding areas

Living

Tips, suggestions, ideas, and concerns about living in Manzanillo

Photo Friday

Photo showcase of the best scenes in Manzanillo

Reviews

Reviews of restaurants, hotels, activities, and books

Tourism

Everything you want to, and need to know as a visitor in Manzanillo

Home » Featured, Living

Submitted by Manzanillo Blogger on Saturday, 4 July 20096 Comments

As you may have noticed, its raining, a lot. Isn't it beautiful how the rain just makes the greenery come alive and turns the air so clear? A few days of downpour and the vegetation explodes, falling over into the streets, covering hills, and trying to eat my porch. Have you started noticing where leaks are in your house? This season lasts through October so you better get them fixed up.

What To Expect During Manzanillo's Wet Months

The cycle we typically experience is this: First, comes the heat and humidity. For about a day or two the air gets intensely heavy and the temperature gets pretty darn hot. You remember when the thermometer explodes in the cartoons? Well, that sort of feels like my head. Right before it feels like its going to pop, a beautiful storm comes rolling in and drops rain as well as the barometric pressure and the temperature. It usually rains at night. Occasionally we get a symphony of thunder and lightning that shakes the house. When it rains at night it gets refreshingly cold and wonderful. About noon the next day, the clouds have parted and the sauna-like conditions describe above begin again.

Manzanillo's Hurricane Season

Yes we have hurricane season. No we do not have hurricanes, at least not since 1959. Of course we have a our usual rainy season drama of hurricanes dancing their way here, only to turn into a tropical storm that merely blows blustery kisses and moves on. Manzanillo frequently is in the news for having hurricanes off their cost. The regions hurricaines are measured in miles (or kilometers) from Manzanillo. This is because one of the only weather monitering stations in this part of Mexico is just a little Northeast of Manzanillo. A storm can be much closer to Puerto Vallarta, but it is still measured in distance from the Manzanillo weather monitering station. This results in many frantic emails from friends and family everytime, but there is rarely need to be overly concerned. It's nice to know that the city is alert and active about addressing any impending weather catastrophes though.

Overall, Manzanillo weather is very agreeable. You can pretty much rely on it to stay relatively the same year round. Did you know that we are on the same lattitude as Hawaii? Also, since Manzanillo is a port and bay side town, we get plenty of cool wind. Some even dare to boast that Colima has the best weather in all of Mexico. It's a shame that so many people leave this time of year and miss out on this great season.

6 Comments »

tracy said:

YEAH! You are back. And I am so glad to here that your not dead. (for more reasons then most people will ever know) Don’t get me wrong, I really like happy faces, but seeing the beautiful rain was a refreshing sight.

Did you know that at the ‘KIOSKO’ nearest the Saint John’s school you can receive free a little key chain with own code for buying TelCell cards for your cellular phone. So that way if you forget your phone number, it is no problem. Just have them scan your key chain!!

- 5 July 2009 at 1:01 pm

HolyMole said:

In connection (maybe) with rain, and our plans to hopefully live full-time in Mexico soon, I’ve been keeping track of humidity, as well as maximum and minimum daily temperatures for Zihuatanejo and Mazatlan two or three times each month since May/08, and, since Feb/09, I’ve added Colima (city), Manzanillo, Guadalajara, Uruapan, Oaxaca (city) and San Carlos to the list.
My figures show Colima and Manzanillo consistantly with the highest humidity readings of all those locations, regardless of which month.
I realize that high humidity on or near the coast is unavoidable and the price one pays if that’s where one wants to live, but it is interesting that it seems to be so high in those two spots.

- 9 July 2009 at 5:41 pm

Manzanillo Blogger (author) said:

Oh, to say it’s humid here is like saying it’s wet in the rain forest… Thankfully it’s only for a few months out of the year.

- 9 July 2009 at 5:45 pm

Howard said:

The humidity in Manzanillo has been running at about 75 to 80%, but we have had very little rain this month (July). I would be happy if it rained more often!

- 26 July 2009 at 6:23 pm

El zorro platiado said:

Strange year for summer weather. This is summer #6 for us and each one has been different; this one the least rain but still high humidity.

Once June rolls around I change my homepage to this:

http://hurricane.accuweather.com/hurricane/basin.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&basin=epacific

and also daily check this:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml?epac

Between the two, and the regular AccuWeather.com site for Manzanillo, I get a general idea of what is coming.

This year the satellite images show the weather systems forming in the Bay near to Acapulco but then going almost due West out into the Eastern Pacific. Usually, in previous years, they have traveled up the coast giving us rain every three days or so. Not so this year. It is a strange wind and ocean current year, especially for an El Niño year.

- 29 July 2009 at 8:08 am

Jamie said:

Hello Manzanillo blogger, I have been following your blog for a while now and I like your posts. I work with a new MLS site for Mexico http://www.2casarealty.com.

I was wondering if you have an RSS feed of your posts? We would be interested in carrying your feed on sections of our site.

I must say hello to Howard, I used to live next door to him in Melaque, but am back in Canada for now.

Thanks

- 15 August 2009 at 11:52 am