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Btw, is Al Gore the guy who invented the internet?

I think so. I think he invented global warming too.

MG, If you are so smart, then who invented Global Warming?

During rainy season, does it rains as much in other areas in CR (jaco, Tamarindo, Puerto Viejo) as it does in San Jose? I was there for three weeks this year and it rained really hard in the afternoon. It was really gloomy.

AM Costa Rica reported today that the rainy days are expected to start dimishing around now.

There are signs the season is changing . . . Honest!
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

Despite the rain and despite the high probability that this morning is a soggy one, the Costa Rican weather experts said that the season is in transition.

That means good-bye, rain, and hello, high season.

The days that follow will alternate between dry and rainy, said the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional in its prediction for today. But because a cold front has moved into Nicaragua the full benefit of the seasonable change will not be seen immediately, said the weather bureau. That's the reason for additional rain and downpours this week even as the winds from the north pick up.

The winds from the north push away the unsettled weather and provide much of Costa Rica with a windy, sometimes chilly dry season that runs from sometime in December through April.

The weather prediction has statistics on its side. A nine year study of weather conditions shows that November has 19 days with rain in San José and precipitation of 143.9 millimeters (about 5.66 inches), December usually has just eight rainy days and 38.6 millimeters of rain (some 1.5 inches).

The average number of rainy days for January, February and March are from three to four,
according to the statistics. April picks up with seven days on average.

The dry season moves into the country from the north, so the season arrives first in the north Pacific and last in Golfito and the south Pacific. Liberia has only a few rainy days from December to April, according to the summary.

In Golfito, the average for December is 11 rainy days with January, February and March having from six to seven. From May through November there the monthly precipitation is around 500 millimeters (nearly 20 inches).

The Caribbean coast does not really have a dry season, although it has been unusually dry this year. Typically December and January are months of heavy rain, and each month sees from 19 to 28 days with rain, according to the institute's compilation.

With the start of the dry season in the Central Valley residents are adding blankets to their bed because temperatures can be in the mid-50s (14 C.) at nights.

This has been a rough rainy season for the Pacific coast and some locations inland where hurricanes and tropical storms drenched the soil, caused landslides and resulted in heavy flooding and even loss of life.

I think the weather in CR is the same year-round, unless it's raining.