I totally agree with the sentiment of spending a whole year in one place. It's been a totally different experience since the rains stopped. They will be returning by June, if they don't arrive in May. The Mayan declared in their New Year celebration that it will be a year "grandes lluvias", a lot of rain, though not necesarily storms. They say last year had more rainfall on record than they have since they started recording, so we'll see if we top it.