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Each country and Hong Kong 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, the total number of countries and non-independent jurisdictions from which visits have been received rose to 137 in December. Of this number, 13 are non-independent jurisdictions such as Hong Kong. The latest country was Iran. The location indicated by the visitor's IP address was Tehran which is Iran's capital city.
For 2024 as a whole, visits were received from 48 identifiable countries and non-independent jurisdictions. Also, the number of viewers of my YouTube video showing our landing back in 2017 at the Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) in Costa Rica surpassed 10,000 in 2024.
So far as I can tell, the video is somewhat unique - especially as it was taken while aboard a relatively large aircraft (a Boeing 757-200). There are many YouTube videos taken while a large aircraft descends from a distance to the SJO runway along a straight line flight path. In our case, the aircraft first flew from west to east slowly descending until over San José. Then it did a 180° turn ending with a low altitude steeply banked portion before straightening out and heading westward to land.
So far as I can tell, the video is somewhat unique - especially as it was taken while aboard a relatively large aircraft (a Boeing 757-200). There are many YouTube videos taken while a large aircraft descends from a distance to the SJO runway along a straight line flight path. In our case, the aircraft first flew from west to east slowly descending until over San José. Then it did a 180° turn ending with a low altitude steeply banked portion before straightening out and heading westward to land.
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The following is a summary of the weather for December in the area where we live:
However, all was not normal. On many days, there was a substantial amount of cloud cover throughout the day. Often the cloud cover did not produce any rain but it shielded the sun and kept temperatures down. The average daytime high in December 2024 was 3.5°F (2.0°C) less than that in December 2023.
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.
