I don't know for you, but for us here in Jarabacoa, it has been a raiiiiiiny season. When we started talking about the rainforest we became curious as to how much it actually rains in the Rainforest. Ofcourse, there are many rainforests so we focused on the Brazilian rainforest and set to work looking at different resources that could maybe help us figure this out. It would be curious to see if our own Jarabacoa was slowly becoming a rainforest right before our eyes.... Or give us a clue how much it TRULY rains in the Brazilian jungla. For a couple of days we were busy at work in the computer lab looking for average rainfall data. Next, we subtracted the data for Jarabacoa and the Rainforest and we were able to see the difference in rainfall by month. Finally, we figured out the difference beteween the average rainfall in both regions. Here is what we found: It rains a whole lot more in the Brazilian Rainforest. And thought we started the year with a considerable less amount of rain, as we approached the middle months it seemed to even out and there where quite a few months were WE had more inches of rain... but on the average it rains about 40% more in the Jungla! Can you imagine living under such conditions?!? no wonder so many wonderful things grow....
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