The time has finally come for me to write a typically ‘English’ post about the weather in Rio. Why now? Well because it’s May of course!

May is my favourite month in England. The nights are long and lengthening still. A long spell of dry sunny weather usually brings people outside, and the English assume that rare smile only the onset of summer can bring.

This May however, i’m in Rio, in the southern Hemisphere, meaning May is actually the end of summer rather than the beginning. Fortunately, Rio is within the tropics, with the tropic of Capricorn just a few miles south of Rio, and being situated within the tropics means winter as we know it in England never comes. The

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