Monsoon brings autumn numbers forward a month

My sister recently returned from a brief holiday in Ghana in West Africa.

As we sat in the kitchen, the conversation turned to the weather, and she explained that Ghana has basically two seasons. “The rainy season and the dry season.”

Robert, my 10-year-old, on hearing this, pipes up, “That’s just like Ireland, Mary”. “How’s that, Robbie?” she asked. “Well, we’ve winter and then we have when it rains”.