Below this following graph, you will find a summary of the weather in 2007 in Van Engelen and other parts of Curaçao. Following that paragraph, the weather in every month of 2008 will described in some detail. You can jump from here straight to those lines starting with details about the weather in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October and November 2008. Information about the rainfall during the remaining month will follow here as the year progresses.

The year 2007 was below my 28-year average of 600 mm but better than 2006 when only 435.9 mm was caught by my rain gauge. All months from January through August had below average rainfall totals. That negative trend ended in September starting with the wettest day of the year on September 2, courtesy of hurricane Felix. That system was responsible for 39 mm in Van Engelen and many sections in the island got even more rain on that day. December however became the wettest month of 2007 eclipsing September in the second half of the month. Read in the following paragraphs how 2008 is going to perform, as far as rainfall in Van Engelen is concerned.

The first rain of 2008 was recorded during the morning of December 31, 2007 after 8 A.M. and was only a small amount. Little significant rainfall amounts of rain were observed until the 25^th. During the afternoon of that day, a couple of heavy showers finally gave the soil some badly needed moisture. More rain followed on the 31^st and that helped the month become a little wetter although it still ended somewhat drier than average.

February 2008 was rather dry and things could have been a lot worse if a few passing showers hadn't brought some much needed rain on the last day of the month.

March had a better start than February with some rain of the first day of the month already. A few significant rain events were observed over parts of the island but not in Van Engelen and the end of the month came and went without any significant rain in my gauge.

The first half of April saw some rainfall but most of it went by without affecting Van Engelen until the late evening of the 3^rd. Since then however, it has been very dry and most sections of the island haven't seen more than a couple of sprinkles since the first days of the month.

No measurable rain was observed over or near my gauge during the first 19 days of May. Finally, the first measurable rain in almost a month fell during the morning of the 20^th. After that, there was only one other rain event with only 0.9 mm. The month ended very dry with the same month sum as the previous one: 2.3 mm.

The first week of June was also dry but that changed quickly during the morning of the 8^th when almost double the amount of April and May fell. Three weeks into the month however, drought conditions were still persisting but on the 24^th and 25^th, finally some significant rain found its way to many sections of the island.

July had a pretty wet start with some significant, although not flooding, rainfall on the 2^nd day of the month. The strong showers during the early morning of the 13^th and again during the afternoon of the next day were very welcome and the same can be said about the rain on the 18^th. Little rain however fell during the last few days of the month.

Although some rain did fall during the first four days of August, it was too little in Van Engelen to be measured. Only on the 6^th, the first measurable rain fell here. After thirteen days, finally some significant rain reached my gauge but much more rain fell on the 24^th. This day even became the wettest of the year to date and with a couple of rather wet days after that one, this month has become the wettest since last December. The final four days of the month however were dry again.

September started dry and very warm. After three days, the warm weather was still with us but it became a lot wetter on the fourth. That lasted only one morning though and after that came a dry period that lasted for exactly two weeks. After a couple of wet days around the 20^th, dry weather prevailed until the end of the month.

The first month of the official rainy season, October, had a modest start with only a few minor showers during the first days. More significant rain started to fall during the early evening of the fifth and especially the early morning of the sixth. A lot more rain came on the eighth and, with tropical storm Omar on a close visit, we got even more rain on the 14^th and 15^th. More healthy rain events followed during the second half of the month and October ended quite wet.

November had a so-so start with some rain on the first day which actually fell on the last day of October, but after the "reset time" of 8 A.M. The rest of the first half of the month however has been mainly dry, especially after the fourth with no measurable rain at my station until the fifteenth. The second half of the month must have a much better rainfall performance to make this a "credible" November.

Please take a look at this graph to see the day to day rainfall measured during this month.