Comments on: Summer Arts Festival in San Jose is This Weekend

By: Culture Shock

Culture Shock — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:29:25 +0000

It feels like summer here now. Yesterday it was 85 degrees and its been so sunny that I got sun burned twice this week. We have also need to turn on the fan at night to sleep in San Jose. At night there is almost no breeze. This is as summer as it gets.

By: Wild Orchid

Wild Orchid — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:21:20 +0000

Costa Rica’s climate is only divided into two major seasons: rainy and dry. The dry season runs from January through May and the rainy season (aka Green Season) from May to November, sometimes December. The seasons were named by the early Spanish colonizers, who compared them to their own Mediterranean climate, calling the dry months “verano” (summer), and the rainy months “invierno” (winter). Ironically, the coldest temperatures are registered during the early dry season or “summer”.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:43:28 +0000

Why do Ticos call the current season Summer? They are still in the northern hemisphere. And it seems that the last time I checked their average temps what they call “Summer” were the lowest. I’ve asked Ticos and their response usually is something along the lines of, “It’s not colder just more wind.”