A strong El Niño has taken hold over Costa Rica and will keep much of the country drier and hotter than normal through the rest of 2026, according to the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional (IMN), which expects the warm phase of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation to persist into early 2027. The institute’s early-warning system for the […] The post Costa Rica Faces Water Rationing and Wildfire Risk as El Niño Deepens appeared first on The Tico Times | Costa Rica News | Travel | Real Estate.