I was just thinking about the pros and cons of living in Costa Rica. I had just looked at all of the wonderful pictures that my brother and sister in-law (Jake and Rebekah) recently posted of their home in Costa Rica. Also, another set of bro and sis in-laws (Joey and Katie) just visited there and experienced some rains from the tail-end of former hurricane Matthew. So I was wondering how prone to hurricanes is Costa Rica?
The answer is...not very. If you look at the top chart which is a map of all the tropical storms in the last 150 years (up to 2006). If you look real closely, Costa Rica basically has no storms that have tracked straight over the country. They may get some of the tail edge rains, but no dangerous killer winds. Honduras and Nicaragua are not so fortunate, but even for them most hurricanes are downgraded to tropical storms or depressions by the time they hit shore. Even if storms form as far south as Costa Rica, such as with Matthew, they always head north before they get there. See Below.
Costa Rica is blessed and it can thank the Coriolis Effect for it. It is the blessing of being close to the equator.
so basically we are just really, really, really unlucky. :-) i mean weatherwise.
ReplyDeletevery random yet very informative
ReplyDeleteNaw, If you go to Costa Rica during the rainy season, you'll get rained on. You'd be unlucky if while on the rain forest train ride your train car got blown off the tracks by 150 mph winds while you were getting wet.
ReplyDeleteMissy,
ReplyDeleteI hope you had a happy birthday. Connor if you are out there, happy birthday to you too.