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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.
Dry Season (Czech: Sucho) is a 2024 Czech drama film directed by Bohdan Sláma.The film was co-produced by the company Negativ, Czech Television, the German company 42film and the Slovak company Artillery with the support of the State Cinematography Fund, the South Moravian Film Foundation Fund, the Slovak Audiovisual Fund and the German Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung.
There is a dry season which stretches from December to June, and a rainy season from July to November. [71] Saipan's average annual precipitation is 82.36 inches (2,092 mm), with 67 percent falling during the rainy season. [72] Typhoons frequent the island chain, which can lead to excessive rainfall. [73]
Within the tropics, distinct, wet and dry seasons emerge due to the movement of the Intertropical Convergence Zone or Monsoon trough. [38] The dry season greatly increases drought occurrence, [39] and is characterized by its low humidity, with watering holes and rivers drying up. Because of the lack of these watering holes, many grazing animals ...
Fronts from mid-latitude storms north of Florida occasionally pass through northern and central parts of the state which bring light and brief winter rainfall. Mid and late winter can become severely dry in Florida. In some years the dry season becomes quite severe and water restrictions are imposed to conserve water. [2]
A Dry White Season is a 1989 American drama film directed by Euzhan Palcy, and starring Donald Sutherland, Jürgen Prochnow, Marlon Brando, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae and Susan Sarandon. It was written by Colin Welland and Palcy, based upon André Brink's novel A Dry White Season. Robert Bolt also contributed uncredited revisions of the screenplay.
The 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 trade wind, of the same name, which blows from the Sahara over West Africa into the Gulf of Guinea. [1] The name is related to the word haramata in the Twi language. [2]
Drought deciduous, or drought semi-deciduous plants refers to plants that shed their leaves during periods of drought or in the dry season. This phenomenon is a natural process of plants and is caused due to the limitation of water around the environment where the plant is situated. [ 1 ]