The most frustrating feature of portuguese winter

It rains A LOT!

Yes, you heard me right. While summers here are extremely dry, in winter time you can easily have weeks of non-stop rains. And if it rains, it really rains! It’s not that drizzling rain we, citizens of Saint Petersburg (considered as the most rainy city in Russia), are used to. It’s a pouring rain usually accompanied by very strong wind from Atlantic that makes you soaking wet in 5 min no matter if you have umbrella or not.

Still don’t believe me? Then compare yearly precipitation data for some of the most rainy European cities:

And while in first 3 cities rainfall is equally distributed through the year, in Lisbon most of it falls in winter. So if you’re going to Lisbon that time, leave your old-fashioned umbrella at home and better take with you something like this:

Or better stay at home.
Stay dry.
Alisa.

PS: and a little bit of St. Petersburg humour for dessert (Pieter is informal name of the city)