Eyes on Costa Rica and Weather Records - June 2019

In June, visits to this blog were received from the following countries:

Visits have now been recorded from over 3870 towns, cities and other places located in 125 countries throughout the world. The most recent country since October last year is Ghana which is identified above and is highlighted on the map below.

On the map, red dots (many of which are buried under other red dots) indicate places from where visits have occurred since September 29, 2016. Dots for visits recorded before that date do not appear.

While the vast majority of visits continue to come from Costa Rica, the United States and Canada, it remains clear that people from many other countries have their eyes on Costa Rica.

In addition to the above, my video on "Landing at Juan Santamaría Airport, Costa Rica" has continued to attract interest not only through this blog where the video was first posted on August 26, 2017 but also directly through YouTube independently of the blog. Since October of last year, the number of times the video has been viewed has risen from over 2590 views to over 4420 views.

With regard to the weather, the following is a summary for the month of June in the area where we live:

Compared to May (the beginning of the rainy season), the temperatures in June were generally unremarkable. However, there was a significant drop in rainfall. In May, the rainfall was over 14 inches (37 centimeters). As indicated above, it dropped to 5.52 inches (14.02 centimeters) in June.

Apparently, the drop in rainfall is not unusual. Although the rainy season begins in May, it will typically be interrupted by a mini-summer or "verano" or "veranilla" with relatively little rainfall. This is then followed by several months where heavy rainfall can be expected until the onset of the next dry season in November or December. We shall see.

By the way, if you look on the Internet for reliable weather forecasts for any given town or city in the Central Valley of Costa Rica, you should understand that the information you likely will get is that coming from a weather station at the  near the city of Alajuela. Given the microclimates in Costa Rica, including those in the Central Valley, the information is often completely unreliable except for places very near to the airport. Grecia is not one of such places. Nor is Atenas where we used to live. Nor too are places such as San Ramon, Palmares, Sarchi, Naranjo, etc. All such places are within about a 1 hour drive from the airport. Type in any one of the place names on a weather channel website and the results you get will likely be those for the airport. The clue that this is so is when all places have the same forecast or that when all places have the same "current conditions".