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Chove muito aqui em janeiro.

Chove muito aqui em janeiro.
It rains a lot here in January.
From Lesson 50:Adverbs of degree (muito, pouco)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Questions & Answers about Chove muito aqui em janeiro.

Where is the word for 'it' in this sentence?
Portuguese doesn't use a placeholder subject like 'it' for weather. The verb chove all by itself means 'it rains'.
Why doesn't muito change its ending to match anything in this sentence?
Because here it is an adverb. It tells us how much it rains (chove). When muito describes an action (a verb) instead of a thing (a noun), it is invariable, meaning it never changes to a feminine or plural form.
Is it a mistake that janeiro starts with a lowercase letter?
No! Unlike in English, months of the year and days of the week are not capitalized in Portuguese unless they appear at the very beginning of a sentence.
Why do we use em janeiro instead of no janeiro?
With months of the year, Portuguese uses the simple preposition em (in). We only use no (which is em + o) when we need to say 'in the', and Portuguese does not say 'in the January'.

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