Weather!!

It is soooooooooo hot! Legit, right now I am entering the hottest month, and I don't know how I am going to wear pants to school everyday....! So, I've been putting this post off for long time, because I wanted to experience everything (no it is not just sun all the time), and the weather more or less varies on where you live in Costa Rica.

So, I live in Puriscal, (I feel kinda bad I haven't made a post about my town yet....gotta do that!), which is in the mountains. Personally, I think Puriscal has on of the best climates in Costa Rica: it's not too hot, and it's not too cold (compared to the other places!) When I first got to Costa Rica in July, it was sunny in the mornings, and then around 3ish, every single day, it would rain. This was a constant thing until around the end of September. Then around October, it started raining a lot more, and I mean a lot! It rained for 2 days straight! You might think this isn't that bad, I'm from Seattle, so I'm used to the rain, but this tropical rain, is crazy! It comes down hard, and you get soaked within seconds. One day in early November, I was walking home from school, and my umbrella broke, and I had to walk up my big hill. All the way I was laughing, soaked to the bone, and I'm pretty sure all the neighbors thought I was crazy! But that's what the rain is like-it just comes down and down in buckets! Then, around late November, the rain started to slow down, it wasn't as frequent, and in December, it would rain about once a week. Now, in January, it is a rare treat to have rain. But since the rain has stopped, the wind has picked up! Around the time of Christmas, the weather was amazing! It was nice and sunny every single day, but it wasn't absurdly hot because there was a nice breeze. Right now, the weather has been really nice. It has been sunny, and there is a slight breeze, which is nice because the worst thing is when it is really hot, but it is a still hot, and you just bake! At night the wind picks up a bit, but it's not a problem. Right now, I am in the "dry season" as the Ticos would like to say. It is hot, and there is no rain. The "rain season" starts around June.

That is the weather of Puriscal, but in other places it is a lot different! Por ejemplo:  Cartago is at the bottom of a volcano, and it is higher in altitude, which means it is a lot colder! It is sunny all the time, but there is A LOT of wind, and it actually is pretty cold, every time I've been to Cartago I've worn a sweater. Guanacaste is really hot all the time. There are a lot of beaches in Guanacaste, so it is really nice to be in the water with a nice hot breeze. In Limon it is more of a hot-humid, and it rains a lot more. It is incredible how different the weather can be in such a small country!