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A meter of rain in July and counting July 22, 2018

Sometime early this morning, La Selva reached 1000 millimeters of rain for the month, and as of now, we’ve had 1055 mm (about 41 inches) of rain in July. In the same time, Palo Verde’s only received 33 mm (about an inch and a half). We got more rain today than Palo Verde’s had this month. Unsurprisingly, the river’s continued to flirt with the oh-shit stick, and it’s been rising and falling pretty rapidly all week. Today, it was at the base of the stick when I went to breakfast, into the first meter when I came back, and was partway up the second meter when I went to lunch. But by dinner time, the water had dropped fast enough that there was mud between the stick and the water.