The measure, which will be updated daily, affects some schools, while those with exams scheduled up to October 31 will have them rescheduled for the week of November 10-14, the ministry added.
The The suspension of classes due to the heavy rains, which includes schools in all the country’s Regional Education Directorates, followed the announcement of serious indirect effects from the cyclone in the territory.
The damage from the storm in the Central American nation is being reported mainly in the South Pacific, which experienced heavy rains in recent hours, specialists reported.
Feeder bands from the storm caused rainfall accumulations of between 30 and 70 millimeters in the region, with maximums of up to 125 millimeters in areas of the Osa canton and Puerto Jimenez, the National Meteorological Institute (IMN) added.
The Costa Rican South Pacific region will continue to be strongly influenced by the tropical hurricane, an extremely powerful phenomenon according to experts from regional agencies, the IMN stated.
“The atmospheric instability associated with the disturbance and the influence of the Intertropical Convergence Zone are also causing storms in the maritime sectors of the Central and North Pacific, which are extending towards coastal areas of the Central American country,” the weather report added.
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