yeah, i'm gonna love being here in the wet season... it's subtropical climate here, winter wet, summer dry, and because i am on the very northern edge of the island, the cold wet air from the north atlantic basically dumps on this part of the island for about half of the days of the cold half of the year

the dramatic climate difference between the north and the south here is extreme, in march it's miserable drizzle and clouds on the north, and if you saw any photos of bitcoin atlantis conference... it was like 26'C and sunny all day long... coming on the bus across the middle of the island it was all dark and nasty until it got over to the other side and then gradually the clouds disappear and then it's downright summery

so the people want to live on the south, but the water is on the north, and as a consequence, there is a massive network of aqueducts (levadas) between springs on the north side and where people actually live on the south... the northern face of the islad blocks so much of the transit of humidity there is two little islands in the south that are called the Desert Islands, and they literalyl have like a few cactus on them and that's it, bone dry, no springs, no water, no rainfall

but yeah, with the cold arctic north winds blowing in it does get cold, sometimes as low as about 14'C and last winter i blew out my electricity bill, normally max 130 euro per month allowed in my rent deal, and i had to pay an extra 45... but that place was big and really shit for keeping heat contained... here i am in a little place and probably can find ways to mitigate a lot of the heat loss to the upstairs, probably mainly just to put curtains on the upstairs windows, it should retain a lot of heat as it has about 2" of foam insulation in the walls everywhere