The weather- vane versus our lifestyle

In Mangalore, summers are usually hot. One experiences cold showers during the summer itself due to the sweltering heat.

This time around, pitter-patter fell the rain drops much ahead of the timely onset of the summer. In March there were heavy rains.

In many parts of the country people die due to the heat. The Mangalore summer can be compared to the Bombay summer. The cities have similar weather. Heavy rains during the monsoons, a light winter and hot summer.

In Mangalore, there's not much of a winter to talk about. Come summer, people re-do their wardrobe. They wear light summer clothes, eat less heavy food and consume more water and ice-creams. In short, they chill out.

Some houses are more hot than others. Houses in localities that have high density of traffic and pollution are a veritable oven but others swathed in nature are less volatile.

So, it all depends on one's environment to detect how one takes the heat.