The rainy season in Thailand

It's rainy season right now in northern Thailand.
Well, it's nearing the end of the rainy season. Soon it will be what they call 'winter' but it's nothing like the winter that I'm familiar with.

The rainy season goes from the end of May until end of October, but it's wettest in September. 

Check it out here, if you like http://www.1stopchiangmai.com/about_cm/seasons/

The rainy season is characterized by torrential downpours. They can be sudden bursts that only last for half an hour or so or solid rain for hours at a time - mostly at night, thankfully.
Meanwhile the temperature remains in the thirties!

And the mini lakes in our garden form within minutes of the start of a downpour. And our tropical paradise becomes a wet tropical paradise!

Here Alicia is wondering if she'll venture out in the rain or not.

We're not inconvenienced by it too much. The downpours are usually over pretty quickly, the water drains away and we go on as if they hadn't occurred, except that it's very slushy underfoot.

I was sorry I didn't take photos of us caught in a downpour a couple of weeks ago at the night bazaar in Chiang Mai. It was raining SERIOUSLY and we got VERY wet 

and I LOVED it!
You would have enjoyed seeing me in my mauve disposable waterproof poncho.