If you Google for weather in Nova Friburgo, you will find that this is not the best time to visit. For me it is not Christmassy in the least. There is not much variation in the temperatures nor in the amount of rain each day. The Chart below is about Nova Friburgo proper, up at our house at a 1000 meter or 3000 feet, the temperatures are about 3 degrees cooler and the rain much heavier/fog more constant.
5-Day Forecast December. 10 - 14
| Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday |
 23° C 20° C 74° F 68° F | 27° C 20° C 81° F 68° F |  28° C 21° C 83° F 70° F | 29° C 20° C 85° F 68° F |  23° C 19° C 74° F 66° F |
You can wake to the sound of rain, go to bed at night to the sound of rain and thunder and when not fully raining there is mist in the air that leaves trees and flowers covered in moisture. Dripping endlessly. The average rainfall for the months of November, December and January are 6.7, 9.4 and 8.2 inches respectively for a total of more than 50 inches a year. The Rainy Season = the Christmas season.
All this humidity brings swollen rivers and mud slides. If a road is going to collapse it will be at Christmas time. One year when we were up here visiting from the States for Christmas, we drove into Friburgo for supplies the day after and found the city covered in about a foot of mud. The river that runs through central filled with a mud slide up in the hills and barreled down through town overflowing the banks, inundating the whole town.
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The advantage is when the sun is out the colors of the forest is GREEN and the colors of the flowers vibrant.
Ginger, your flower photos take my breath away.
ReplyDeleteWhen it rains in Las Vegas for more than 30 minutes, you can bet that we will have flooding somewhere. It's terrible. The water doesn't soak into the hard desert ground very well.
It sounds like you have wonderful weather forecasst this time of year. I love being warm. I'm not much for cold weather.
It sure looks wet! Love the fog/clouds pic.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pictures :) I love the clouds and the raindrops on the flowers
ReplyDeleteYour photos are beautiful. I love the way you captured the water drops. Right about now I'd like to trade weather with you!
ReplyDeleteyour photos are so beautiful. you have mud slides we have blizzards.
ReplyDeletehave a great weekend!!
Oooh, I am a sucker for clouds and mountains, but we had so little of either one this week. The weather in Brasil this time of year...I guess I would miss the northern climes quite a bit. Doesn't seem like December without some cold weather and a little snow. Still, the lush vegetation and those beautiful flowers make up for an awful lot!
ReplyDeleteI love that mountain picture, awesome! we had rain occasionally here too, mostly it's sunny.
ReplyDeleteGotta have all the rain so everything is tropical green year around, but it sure can be a pain.
ReplyDeleteThe price we pay.
I think we will see the Sun today here in Goiania for the first time this week.
We've been a Seattle without the Starbucks.
ExpatBrazil
You ought to do a photo column for Rio Times! Reach more people with your top notch post and photos!!!
Gringo Gene thanks for your continuous encouragement.... I will look into sending something to the Times.... I'll let you know if there is any success.
ReplyDeleteMany of your shots should be in National Geographic. The first and last three were fabulous.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Gordon. Particularly the thick white fog clouds settled in the valley at the end.
ReplyDeleteThe photos are just breathtaking. Although I imagine shopping in a foot of mud does not get one in the Christmas spirit.
ReplyDeleteI agree with expat and Gordon, your photos are definitely publishable.
I agree with Gordon...I am glad I was not the only one who put up the weather.com info! Ha I love your stuff always...hugs
ReplyDeleteOhhhh wowo you shots are stunning..the flowers just amazing. Love the header!! Wow!
ReplyDeleteMudslides don't appeal to me but your photos do!
ReplyDeleteLove the shot of the clouds Ginger; the raindrops on the flowers, and the mist in the hills.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful.
Great pictures, as always. My favorite is the mountain tops.
ReplyDeleteThe weather may not be good, but your photos are wonderful!
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful place you live in. I can deal with 1000, meters (but when I get up to 2,000, things get dicey) -- and 23 degrees is Just Right. The mudslides, now -- I guess every silver lining has its cloud, but mudslides sound scary.
ReplyDeleteThese are spectacular! I especially love the one with the fog in the mountains.
ReplyDeleteThe first best set of weather photos for me. I can see the raindrops.
ReplyDeleteBTW, can I grab the best photo of yours that I like? I will make another special post. Thanks in advance!
That's the fun of Friday Shoot Outs, the fact that we experience many different environments, customs etc. Thanks for once again showing us your lovely part of the world. Safe travels and have a wonderful Christmas!
ReplyDeleteYour cloud pictures are BEAUTIFUL, and I love your creative way of capturing the rain in the flower pictures!
ReplyDeleteGingerV...so many amazing shots...you live in paradise...the second to the last shot, the clouds hovering over the mountains, stunning!
ReplyDeleteYour raindrops on flowers are sooo beautiful, Ginger!! And I love the hilltops above the clouds!
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