I get the thing with this whole El Nino issue, but the thing is that it still isn’t funny at all. With the way things are going, I won’t be surprised if people just start walking on the streets one day and steam starts erupting from our heads. It really isn’t funny, especially because the nights are hot just as the day is hot. For a country where light is an issue, you can imagine trying to sleep but you are sweating profusely because even the night air is hot. Right now I am still in the office and had to turn on the air conditioner alongside the fan because of just how hot the environment is. It’s so hot that even the walls have absorbed the heat and are just dishing it out when the sun has gone down. I mean I went out for lunch and was immediately running back to the office because of how scotching hot it was out there.
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If there is one thing I am grateful for it is that I do not have to work outside. I really pity our field workers during this period, you see lots of them struggling so hard under the scorching heat. One of our field workers fell sick, took a sick leave, came back from his sick leave only to suffer from heat stroke at the end of the day because of how intense the heat was. He was giving another 1 week leave afterwards and for people like that it’s clearly affecting their jobs. Although it isn’t affecting my job, I can’t ignore those whose health has been put at risk because they have to work under the sun that looks like it’s going to boil us. Even after the effects of the sun is felt in the middle of the night, sometimes I have to bathe twice at night due to how hot it gets and from what I hear it will even get hotter as the day goes by.
Another thing I am grateful for is the fact that I am in a state where it rains even in the most awkward seasons. You will be surprised that there are places in my state that are even suffering from floods even in this period. We experienced heavy rainfall once this week and really cold weather twice this week in some parts here and I am happy it happened in the part where I live. This made it a bit easier for us to deal with the heat. Now I am praying for another rainfall at the very least because this sun and the heat it is bringing isn’t funny at all. I usually prefer a balanced season, I mean I wouldn’t mind if the day is scotching hot so long we can have a really cold night to balance it. In fact I prefer my nights to be always cold and I think that would be what is coming next during the Harmattan season.
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