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Tropical Storm Dolly has come ashore in the State of Veracruz. She should continue towards the center of the country. My hope is that she is dropping plenty of rain and will fill the rivers that eventually drain our direction into Lake Chapala. This has happened in the past, and we need water from wherever it comes.

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Be careful what you wish for. Eastern and central Mexico have had so much rain this rainy season that even before Dolly came into Veracruz, there was flooding in the capital. The governor announced yesterday that all Veracruz schools will be closed today.

The rainy season started around April 1 this year and it has rained heavily almost every day or evening since then. Five months of rainy season...our hair is mildewing.

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Even though we have not had the daily heavy rain More Liana describes, Ajijic has had so many overcast days since April 1 that our cool-weather flowering plants have continued to thrive and sun/heat loving plants have not. We are missing the old summer pattern of sunny days and rainy nights.

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On the way to Chapala yesterday we noticed the marked difference in the lake level. It has really gone down quite a bit in the last couple of months. Our rain does not seem to be keeping up with the usage of the lake water.

It's not so much usage as evaporation.

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Actually, according to the official measurement posted in chapalaweather.net, the lake is rising -- slowly, but it's coming up. It did start to recede for a bit during August but then started rising again, which (especially given the quantity of lirio that has recently appeared) seems to indicate that water is being released from somewhere, probably the Lerma river.

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What is making the lake evaporate so much faster than in the past?

I believe the idea is that there has not been enough rain to compensate for evaporation.

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