A Day Painted in Sunshine and Breeze: The Guadalajara Weather Story, May 16th, 2025
The high-altitude city of Guadalajara awoke today, the 16th of May in the year 2025, to a meteorological narrative distinctly different from the humid tales of coastal regions. Here, nestled on the expansive Central Mexican Plateau, the weather forecast promised a day dominated by brilliant sunshine, dry heat, and a wind that would gather strength as the hours advanced. It was a day shaped by the characteristic patterns of late spring, a season poised between the arid embrace of the dry months and the impending, rain-kissed arrival of the wet season, typically heralded in June. Today’s weather would be a celebration of clear skies and radiant solar power, a stark contrast to the overcast beginnings experienced elsewhere. As the first faint shades of pre-dawn gray began to soften the deep indigo of the night sky, well before the official sunrise time of around 6:16 AM, a distinct crispness hung in the air. This wasn't the heavy, saturated feeling of coastal humidity, but a dry, c...