Hello, everyone.
I welcome you to my blog. How time flies, celebrating the start of the year 2024 still feels like yesterday, but funny how it is already coming to an end, and in a few weeks we will bid the year 2024 farewell and move onto 2025. No doubt that the months that bring the year to an end or indicate the end of every year come with a lot of cold and breeze from the desert called harmattan; those days by this time of the year it takes only the strong hearted to bathe or have anything to do with cold water during the early hours of the day.
Those days we used warm water to do the dishes before leaving for school as using cold water was suicide and if you try it there is no coming back from how cold and freezing you would feel, sometimes I look back at those days and appreciate it, the days where you can comfortably predict the season that comes with every month and it will be exactly how you predicted but these days things have changed, the months where we are supposed to expect rain, we get dry season and the months where we are supposed to get dry season we get rain, we are in the month of November and it has been rain after rain for the past 3 days, this occured rarely those days as November and December are famous for heavy harmattan and cold hence no expectations for rain.
These days, due to climate change, it is a lot more difficult to actually predict the weather. The months you expect things to happen like they did have changed, and now come in months you least expect, but adapting has always been a thing. As the climate changes, we adapt to everything that it throws at us, but we too, as humans, need to take care of nature so nature will take care of us in return.
Climate change has taken over and things are no longer the way we met them; those days the harmattan cold took full charge of the night and early hours of the day, then the sun and the harmattan breeze took charge of the afternoon and handed over to cold at night, but currently it is no longer so. Now the weather we have is mixed; the harmattan cold starts at past midnight and lasts till early hits of the days, then the very hot scorching sun takes over during the noon but no harmattan breeze that causes the nose to hurt, then at night we have heat making people sweat and uncomfortable, like we are in the month of April.
Getting to cope with the weather is a bit difficult since you don't really know what to expect, but since we have been able to get a few details about how the weather works, what I do is to have my fan on, but since power supply is not guaranteed, I keep my window open, and then I sleep with a duvet nearby in case when the cold starts I can cover up. Then, as for the dry skin that comes with this period, I ensure to keep my body moisturized at all times to avoid breakage.
