The cold front did appear on Thursday just as predicted. Central Valley residents are welcoming breezes and lower temperatures as they recover from some of the hottest weather of the year. On the coast, however, the predicted temperatures for today still are in the 90s (between 32 and 36 C). The latter being in Liberia (97F). Read more »
The Costa Rican weather service (Instituto Meteorológico Nacional, IMN) is predicting an early transition to the dry season, about a week earlier than normal.
They predict that the start of the season will be happening between November 7 and 11 in the Northern Pacific region of Guanacaste, November 12 to 16 in the Central Valley (San José), between December 12 and 16 in the Central Pacific (Jacó and Quepos) and the first week of January for the Southern Pacific. Read more »
The Instituto Meteorologico Nacional (IMN) predicts that the low rainfall will continue for the rest of the year. Even the wettest month, October will not be wet at all. The lack of rain will affect the Central valley as well as the Pacific coast.
Because of the "dry" October it’s predicted that the start of the summer season in Guanacaste will be at least two weeks ahead of schedule. Typically the summer season starts at the beginning of November, but this year it will begin by the mid-October.
The lack of rain is causing all sorts of problems for farmers. The Ministry of Agriculture is estimating that as many as 70 thousand heads of cattle are at serious risk due to the lack of rainfall. Coffee and sugar cane crops are expected to be low in the Central Valley (areas around San Jose, Grecia, Atenas, San Ramon, etc.). Guanacaste province lost most of it’s rice crops already. Read more »
After much drier than normal August, rain is finally back.
According to Rebeca Morera from the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional (IMN), September will bring rains similar to the historical average.
That’s really good news to the country’s agricultural industry. August weather was unusually dry, the result of the "el Niño" phenomenon.
San Jose received 50% less rain than normal, Pavas 60% less and Alajuela 55% less. Read more »
What a bizarre weather we experienced this July in the Central Valley of Costa Rica. First, the Veranito San Juan “officially” arrived very early. It was printed in each and every newspaper that it arrived, but it seemed like a hoax. There were only a couple of dry days instead of the usual week or 2. Everyone was very disappointed.
Then July came and rain stopped. Not a drop for a week. then it drizzled for a day and back to dry. So far it’s been the driest July in the last 15 years. Read more »
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March 19, 2010 1:53 pm
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