Eyes on Costa Rica and Weather Records - December 2023 & Year End Review

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During December, visits to this blog were received from the following 20 countries:

Each country is followed in brackets by the total number of visits received since records first started to be kept in November 2012.  In addition, 3 visits were received in December from unidentified locations (which in theory could be the same location). For more information on unidentified locations and where they might be see my blog post on August 4, 2023.

From the time I first started to keep track, the total number of countries and non-independent jurisdictions from which visits have been received rose to 136 in December. Of this number, 13 are non-independent jurisdictions such as Hong Kong. The latest country is Kenya which is located in East Africa. The visit was from Nairobi, Kenya's capital city.

During 2023 as a whole, visits were received from 35 identifiable countries and non-independent jurisdictions. As of year end, the total number of visits to this blog approached 52,000 according to an app named RevolverMaps. In the right hand sidebar of my blog, the number indicates roughly 27000+ visitors. However, the latter number is for the period from Sep. 29, 2016 to date and does not include visitors during the earlier period from Nov. 13, 2012 to Sep. 29, 2016. The following projection produced using RevolverMaps indicates with red dots locations from where visits have been received since Sep. 29, 2016:

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The following is a summary of the weather for December in the area where we live:

There were many days which were overcast virtually all day long.  However, except for a couple of those days the overcast produced no rain. On the few days when it did rain, it typically occurred in the afternoons and was preceded by mornings with broken clouds.

For the year as a whole and as the following chart illustrates, the total amount of rainfall in 2023 was significantly less than that in 2022.

As reported in the The Tico Times: "Due to the El Niño phenomenon, Costa Rica experienced lower than normal rainfall in 2023 across most of the country, ending the year with a precipitation deficit in almost all regions."