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Rain, Rain Please Go Away …October Blues

For the past few days it has rained incessantly. If you didn’t know where you were, you’d think you were in Seattle, Washington. Cold, rainy, wet and gray skies is the kind of weather we’ve had. You would never think that you were in the  tropical country. By the way, in Costa Rica they call this type of incessant rain a temporal.

Unfortunately, October is the worst month for weather in Costa Rica. It coincides with the peak of the hurricane season in the Caribbean and we get all of the rain but not the dreaded hurricanes. Thank god! Nevertheless the last three or four Octobers have really been wet  I guess weather patterns all over the world have changed because man has destroyed and polluted the environment. These extreme changes in the weather are probably Mother Nature’s way of warning us that we are destroying the planet.

There are malls, where you can have lunch, see a movie or window shop if you get too bored at home.

By the end of the October nobody wants to see any more water. All the rain puts a damper on the outdoor activities here. I like to visit friends or go out to eat but when it is pouring I find it hard to get motivated to leave the house. Fortunately, I work at home and always have something to catch up on. There is a mall about ten minutes away where I can have lunch, see a movie or window shop if I get too bored at home.

The rainy season usually lasts about six months. If it rained like it is doing now throughout the whole rainy season, all of the retired people living here would probably leave and come back in November much like the snowbirds do in the States because of the snow.  One can easily put up with one wet month and enjoy  the  spring-like weather of the Central Valley most of the year. I don’t know of one person who has cancelled their retirement plans or moved back  to the U.S. because of Costa Rica’s weather. Usually the places where most people come from have scorching summers and freezing winters, so it wouldn’t make sense to move back to even worse weather.

Footnote: I wrote this article and the following day was beautiful and sunny. Who knows what tomorrow will bring?