Costa Rica Weather – San Jose, Costa Rica’s Coldest Day in 25 Years – 54.5 degrees

Yesterday the 22nd November, 2006 was the coldest day in November in more than 25 years according to meteorologist Werner Stolz of the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional (IMN)

According to this expert, the maximum temperature recorded yesterday in San Jose was 17.2 (62.96 degrees Fahrenheit) degrees lower than the previous record of November 1981 when it reached 18 (64.4 degrees degrees Fahrenheit).

This climatic phenomenon was supposedly provoked by cold air masses coming from the North Pole which caused lowest temperature of the year in San Jose, with 12.5 grades (54.5 degrees degrees Fahrenheit), when the normal temperature is 18.9 degrees (66.02 degrees degrees Fahrenheit)

Record Low Temperatures Made The Ticos Shiver:

• 12.5 – San Jose
• 14.4 – Pavas
• 11.5 – Cartago
• 15.4 – Alajuela
• 11.5 – Santa Bárbara
• 16.7 – Liberia

In the capital, people were moving faster to keep warm, some had heavy overcoats on with gloves and caps, gloves and caps. Some declared that they were happy because the cold weather was a blessing “thanks to God.”

That’s certainly what saleswoman Meylin Urrutia believes, who was at his post yesterday outside the Plaza de la Cultura selling woollen gloves. “God is great! He’s made the best sales of my life, I hope this cold copntinues for a long time,” exclaimed Urtrutia.

The cold was more intense in other areas of the country for example, on the skirts of the Irazú volcano, the temperatures dropped to 1.2 degrees (34.16 degrees degrees fahrenheit).

“In those conditions, not even three blankets help very much..,” commented the meteorologist José Joaquín Agüero of the IMN.

According to the expert, the lowest temperatures in many years made the residents of Santa Bárbara’s de Heredia shiver, where early morning temperature of 11.5 degrees were recorded (52.7 degrees degrees Fahrenheit).

Guanacaste did not escape the cold either. The Guanacastecos in Liberia were faced with 16 degrees, the coldest temperature of the year when normally it’s around 23 degrees.

In addition to the intense and persistent cold, the country faced fierce winds of up to 60 kilometers per hour which caused damage to electric and telephone lines as well as bringing down trees on top of cars and houses.

Many people on the Caribbean coast of Limón were alarmed because of the large swells, authorities reported waves of up to four meters in height which prevented the docking of three ships.

Our thanks to Nicolás Aguilar R. and our friends at La Nación – Costa Rica’s largest Spanish circulation newspaper for their permission use this article.

Andrew Makarik

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