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Orographic Forcing creates extremely heavy rainfall on the Osa

Orographic Forcing creates extremely heavy rainfall on the Osa

From September through mid November the southern band of trade winds lie over Costa Rica and orographic forcing by the central mountains creates heavy rainfall over the Osa Peninsula and the southern Pacific but a dry pattern over the Caribbean coast.

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