COMMENT | It has been an arid few months in Kota Bharu and El Nino hasn’t even arrived!

Yet for the past two days, the sky darkened with the promise of rain, delivering much-needed water together with gale-force winds that blew roofs off, uprooted trees and caused electrical failures around town.

From contending with “Air Kelate” that rivalled Starbucks’ Caramel Latte, we now had fresh water with unexpectedly strong winds.

Not exactly what we, in Kelantan, prayed en masse for, but then as Paulo Coelho pointed out “People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more… Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little…”

Be that as it may, as the winds and the rain receded, from my home, on the river, I saw a double rainbow in all its glory.

It had a high arc of seven colours and from my vantage point, appeared to occupy the entire sky.

Don’t you just love looking at rainbows?