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There is a pronounced rainy season from April to November across the commonwealth, encompassing the annual hurricane season. Due to the Commonwealth's topography, rainfall varies greatly across the archipelago. Pico del Este averages 171.09 inches (4,346 mm) of rainfall yearly while Magueyes Island averages only 29.32 inches (745 mm) a year.
Almost whole North Africa is semi-arid, arid or hyper-arid, containing the Sahara Desert which is the largest hot desert in the world, while central Africa (known as Sub-Saharan Africa) sees an annual rainy season regulated by the movement of the Intertropical Convergence Zone or monsoon trough, though the Sahel Belt located at the south of the ...
Rainfall distribution by month in Cairns showing the extent of the wet season at that location. The wet, or rainy, season is the time of year, covering one or more months, when most of the average annual rainfall in a region falls. [68] The term green season is also sometimes used as a euphemism by tourist authorities. [69]
The wet season (sometimes called the rainy season or monsoon season) is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs. [1] Generally, the season lasts at least one month. [2] The term green season is also sometimes used as a euphemism by tourist authorities. [3]
The area receiving sufficient rainfall for agriculture during the Belg season decreased by 16 percent in the twenty years up to 2012. [ 5 ] Ethiopia's climate is predicted to warm between 0.7°C and 2.3°C by the end of the 2020s and between 1.4°C and 2.9°C by the 2050s.
The rainy season is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs. Rainy Season may also refer to: Rainy Season (short story), a 1989 short horror story by Stephen King "Rainy Season", a 2018 song by Monni; The Rainy Season, a 1993 album by Marc Cohn; The Rainy Season, a 1999 novel by James Blaylock
From May through August, the summer monsoon shifts through a series of dry and rainy phases as the rain belt moves northward, beginning over Indochina and the South China Sea (May), to the Yangtze River Basin and Japan (June) and finally to northern China and Korea (July). When the monsoon ends in August, the rain belt moves back to southern China.
There is a defined rainy season from May through October when air-mass thundershowers that build in the heat of the day drop heavy but brief summer rainfall. In October, the dry season sets in across much of Florida (starting early in the month in northern Florida and near the end of the month in deep southern Florida) and lasts until late ...