Eyes on Costa Rica and Weather Records - October 2024

During October, visits to this blog were received from the following 16 countries:

Each country is followed in brackets by the total number of visits received since records first started to be kept in November 2012.

From the time I started to keep track, the total number of countries and non-independent jurisdictions from which visits have been received remains at 136. Of this number, 13 are non-independent jurisdictions - e.g. Guadeloupe, an Overseas Department and Region of France from which 2 visits have been received.

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

In the late morning on October 12 (about 11:43 a.m. to be precise), the alarm on our rain gauge sounded to indicate that a rain event had begun. But there was nary a drop of water falling from the sky. Instead, there was a magnitude 6.2 earthquake taking place just off the coast in the Pacific Ocean near Tamarindo:

The distance from the earthquake epicenter to our house in San Roque de Grecia is about 129 miles (208 km). We felt vibrations from the quake for several seconds but they were small and of no consequence except to trigger the rain guage to falsely register the first 0.01 inches (0.25 mm) of the day.

Information on current and recent weather conditions, climate change and more in various parts of Costa Rica can be obtained from the website of IMN: Instituto Meteorológico Nacional de Costa Rica (Spanish) or National Institute of Meteorology (English). IMN also has a Facebook page which may be of interest.