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Hi there,

We are planning on going to Bali mid-end February and are well aware that this is the wet season and thus rain can be expected. We have read loads and loads about the rain, how it builds up during the day and tend to be one-two hours of showers in the afternoons/evenings/nights. The blogs we have read however tend to be of older date, from around 2005-2010 and we were therefore wondering in recent years how it might look now? Is it still the same predictions (knowing the weather we can never tell anything) or have there been more days with all-day rain? We can easily cope with a couple of hours of rain each day (all the lovely restaurants and spa's will be a nice escape) but all day rain for two full weeks might be a bit more than we can handle. Any locals that has some tips?

Kind regards Sandra

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Hi Sandra: You cant' rely on personal blogs for information, I read ones occasionally and so many of them are very inaccurate..reflecting only one trip or info they pick up from other blogs or clickbait websites. So you are right to question what they say.

*We have read loads and loads about the rain, how it builds up during the day and tend to be one-two hours of showers in the afternoons/evenings/nights.
Because of global climate change, the weather patterns have changed quite a bit. Two years ago we had almost a year long drought, only relieved by rain in the dry season. Then last year we had more rain almost all year. That does not mean the entire 5,000 kilometer square island has the same rainfall - there are hundreds of microclimates, and it is often raining at my house and friends ten minutes away have none. Days where it's overcast there is often drizzle on and off, whereas days that are bright and sunny can often have a big burst of rain that lasts 5 minutes or an hour. Yes, after 4 or 5 there is more likely to be rain but not necessarily just at night.*

Changes are probably 1% that you will see rain all day rain for 2 weeks. In 20 years living full time in Indonesia I've never seen that happen in my neck of the woods. Occasionally I do see a mainly full day of rain however.

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