The first lasts from March till June, and is very warm and windy.

Throughout July and August one can generally count on thunder-storms and heavy rains, while the mornings are bright.

The rains then rarely extend over a large territory, but are confined to local showers, a circumstance very annoying to the agricultural inhabitants, who often see dark clouds rolling up, apparently full of moisture, yet resulting in nothing but gusts of wind.

A ridge may change the course of the clouds.

Sometimes one valley may be flooded with rain, while not far away the heat is drying up everything.