Yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics
For the Chadian film, see Dry Season (2006 film). For the Czech drama film, see Dry Season (2024 film).
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The dry season is a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics. The weather in the tropics is dominated by the tropical rain belt, which moves from the northern to the southern tropics and back over the course of the year. The temperate counterpart to the tropical dry season is summer or winter.
The dryseason is a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics. The weather in the tropics is dominated by the tropical rain belt, which...
A Dry White Season is a 1989 American drama film directed by Euzhan Palcy and starring Donald Sutherland, Jürgen Prochnow, Marlon Brando, Janet Suzman...
regions have two seasons: the rainy/wet/monsoon season and the dryseason. Some have a third cool, mild, or harmattan season. "Seasons" can also be dictated...
cool wet season (which charges the soil with virtually all the moisture that the crops will receive prior to harvest) followed by a warm dryseason. They...
strategies for the wet season. Often, the previous dryseason leads to food shortages in the wet season, as the crops have yet to mature. Crops which can...
A dry thunderstorm is a thunderstorm that produces thunder and lightning, but where most of its precipitation evaporates before reaching the ground. Dry...
seasonal dryness to varying degrees. There are normally only two seasons in tropical climates, a wet (rainy/monsoon) season and a dryseason. The annual...
agriculture of affected regions, and causes harm to the local economy. Annual dryseasons in the tropics significantly increase the chances of a drought developing...
mean temperatures above 18 °C (64 °F) in every month of the year and a dryseason.: 200–1 The tropical monsoon climate is the intermediate climate between...
receive several hundred millimeters of rain per year, they have long dryseasons that last several months and vary with geographic location. These seasonal...
and dryseasons. It could be either a lengthy dryseason and a relatively short wet season; or a lengthy wet season and a relatively short dryseason. The...
humidity and plenty of rainfall. There are two seasons in the country: the wet season and the dryseason, based upon the amount of rainfall. This is also...
corresponding to winter. The dry season is subdivided into the cool dryseason (May to August), and the hot dryseason (September to October/November)...
species: only some of which drop some or all of their leaves during the dryseason. This tropical forest is classified under the Walter system as (i) tropical...
more active during the wet season, when it spends more time near or on the ground. It is less observed during the dryseason, during which it seeks shade...
subtropical, and arid regions, plants lose their leaves during the dryseason or other seasons, depending on variations in rainfall.[citation needed] The converse...
Harmattan is a season in West Africa that occurs between the end of November and the middle of March. It is characterized by the dry and dusty northeasterly...
sharper wet-dryseason, called a monsoon subtropical climate or subtropical monsoon (Cwa). In these regions, winters are quite chilly and dry and summers...
deciduous plants, which lose their foliage completely during the winter or dryseason. There are many different kinds of evergreen plants, both trees and shrubs...
with warm and fairly dry weather, but the trade winds sometimes blow strongly. The days are still sunny, but although the dryseason is present, this does...
Ancient dry riverbeds—called omuramba—traverse the central northern reaches of the Kalahari and provide standing pools of water during the rainy season. A...
very humid, and wet with no dryseason. Tropical rainforests have a type of tropical climate in which there is no dryseason—all months have an average...
Austrothelphusa transversa , which undergoes aestivation underground during the dryseason. Non-mammalian animals that aestivate include North American desert tortoises...