One thing you get used after living in Costa Rica through a few winter seasons is rain. The winter season is also sometime called our “wet” season, but we in the travel biz frown on that negative description. Instead we like to refer to that time of the year as the “green” season. The idea of even one drop of that liquid stuff falling down during your Costa Rican parade is a double-negative for those of you Northerners who come down here expecting nothing but sunshine and lush tropical greenery. Well, the problem is that without the rain, there is no lush tropical greenery. Rain makes Costa Rica what it is, one of the most beautiful places on earth, a veritable garden of Eden if you will (o.k., maybe that’s stretching it). After a while rain just sort of becomes part of every day life for those of us who actually live here. You don’t need Willard Scott to tell you what the weather will be in between his birthday wishes for centenarians. We know what the weather will be, rain! At least a few hours of it in the afternoon. It is very re-assuring to have a weather pattern that is so consistent. Oh, and we do have one unpredictable weather month, December. It is the so-called transition month between winter and summer. We are experiencing that as I write this and I’ll have to say, the weather has been a little quirky. But Christmas festivities are distracting enough that you don’t really notice it. See, I can put a positive spin on anything when it comes to Costa Rica! Back in the Carolinas where I grew up the weather was anything but consistent. Could be cold one day, hot the next. Windy one day, hot, humid and still the next and so on. Here we have rain from May through November and dry weather from December, well o.k., January through April. That’s the way Mother Nature set it up, so you just have to deal with it. There is no use complaining about it, because all the complaining in the world ain’t gonna change it. Better to complain about things you can change. Better yet, stop complaining and change them! And in the meantime, bring an umbrella just in case.
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