Eyes on Costa Rica and Weather Records - May 2025

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During May, visits to this blog were received from the following 9 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 137. Of this number, 13 are non-independent jurisdictions; for example Macau - a special administrative region (SAR) of China. from which 1 visit has been received.

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

The rainy (or "green") season arrived in full force during May and the amount of rainfall was unusually high. The 27 days with measurable rain compares with19 days in May last year. and the amount was almost double that measured last year. In fact, it was more than May of any year since the time in 2018 when we moved to the Grecia region.

On most days, the sky did not begin to cloud up until the late morning or early afternoon. So, daytime high, low and average temperatures were roughly the same as last year.

The erupting Poás Volcano began to settle down in May. Compared to April, the amount of ashfall with consequent effect on air quality was substantially less.

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.

Here is a photo I took (0450 this morning) from our house of last night’s Strawberry Moon:

Fourteen Years! and Jurassic Park.

Fourteen years ago, we landed in Costa Rica!

 

You can read about our move here. It has been a great fourteen years. Moving sight unseen to a foreign country has been a wonderful experience for us. So much to learn, so many new things, finding our way through the ins and outs of a new culture - we wouldn’t change a thing.

Now we live just outside the town of Grecia in the Central Valley. We live in a Tico neighbourhood with super neighbours. We have Costa Rican and ex-pat friends. Grecia is large enough to offer us many amenities and at the same time it is rural. We are surrounded by sugar cane and coffee fields. 

Here’s to another fourteen years!

Today was Festival del Amor at our Grecia park. There was a children’s show, a healthy cooking show, live concert, food - and dinosaurs!

We were having breaking at Arte Latte across from the park and walked around afterwards to see the dinos.

Here is a short video I made of the dinosaurs.

By the way, footage of Cocos Island (Spanish: Isla del Coco), Costa Rica was used in the opening sequence of "Jurassic Park" the movie.