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        I HAVE EXPERIENCED some extreme weather during my seasons up in Racha. It is a turbulent area mainly because it is at quite high altitude and close to both the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea. In Nikortsminda we also have the extra humidity from the Shaori dam which affects the micro climate significantly. What happens is that the warm and moist air from the Black Sea meets the ice cold and dry

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mountain air and creates an inferno of thunder storms and heavy rain in the evening. Warm air also rises from the hot flatland on the Russian side of the Caucasus and contributes. The humidity from Shaori can be noticed when the wind is from south. Then the low humid clouds comes creeping over the hills together with cold air. Temperatures can go down from 30 to 10 degrees in a couple of hours, and the weather can stay like this for several days. Nikortsminda has an altitude at about 1400 meters. Up in the mountains the weather can change in half an hour from heaven to outright hell.

Spectacular lightning.
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In the dark evenings you can almost every evening experience a spectacular light show over the remote Caucasus Mountains. Once in a while the low pressure weather systems hits Nikortsminda with full power. That usually knocks out electricity for most parts of western Georgia and you are without power for a day or two. Sometimes the downpour consists of ice cubes the size of cherries. Other times the rain is so heavy that you are soaked in seconds. But most of the time the sun shines and temperatures is above 30.




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Exessive rain without warning destroys a mtsvadi meal.