QCOSTARICA — Costa Rica’s weather service, the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional (IMN), says the dry season has already begun in several sectors of the country; however, they stressed that this does not mean that it will stop raining.
However, according to meteorologist Gabriela Chinchilla, as of this Thursday, the downpours will move away from the entire national territory to enter a “drier” condition.
“The dry season has already begun in the Pacific and in a large part of the Central Valley. The dry season does not mean that it does not rain at all. There are times in the dry season of the Pacific and the Central Valley that we have contributions of rain precisely because cold pressures begin to descend and that clouds us and makes it rain in the Caribbean and in the Northern Zone and it passes to the Central Valley. Even in Guanacaste sometimes there is some type of precipitation associated with these phenomena that occur during December, January and February.
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“The dry season as such, begins when we begin to have cold surges. That being clarified, what would be expected or what we understand from what people are asking, would not be a dry season, but rather, when will we have a pattern in which it is no longer rainy? Possibly, humidity will begin to drop between Thursday and Friday of this week. It would be at a national level because the rains would already stop in the Northern Zone and in the Caribbean and then that would mean that there would not be that projection of precipitation towards the Central Valley and towards some points of Guanacaste,” explained Chinchilla.
“It is important to remember that since cold pushes are recurrent during this quarter of this year and next year, then at some point it will rain again. We are going to have rain again in Limón, in the Northern Zone and that will move to the Central Valley,” said Gabriela Chinchilla.
According to the IMN the influence of the cold surge #3 will continue until tomorrow.
“Cold surge #3 began over the weekend and will continue until tomorrow. Tomorrow the rain will begin to decrease in the Caribbean, in the Northern Zone and what is reflected in the Central Valley. After tomorrow in the afternoon, a more significant decrease will be noted,” said Chinchilla.
The official weather forecast for Wednesday, December 04, 2024:
On Wednesday, the influence of cold surge #3 will continue with its characteristics, but with the variant of presenting less occurrence of precipitation for the Caribbean slope and the Northern Zone, and especially towards the end of the day. During the early morning and tomorrow there will always be incursions of cloudiness and probability of variable rains for said slope, with drizzle in the high parts of the west of the mountain ranges, mountain passes and sectors of the east-north of the Central Valley.
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Partial cloudiness in the afternoon in the South Pacific. Regarding the wind, it will remain accelerated with strong to very strong gusts, both in mountainous parts and mountain ranges, as well as towards most of the lower parts of the Central Valley and North Pacific. The maximum gusts in the north of the North Pacific and mountains would be around 80-100 km/h, while in lower parts between 55-75 km/h. Maximum temperatures are expected to be slightly higher than those of the last two days, but in areas of the central-western Central Valley, on the Pacific side and, in particular, in low-lying areas of the Caribbean.
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