enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Australian monsoon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_monsoon

    Wet season storm in Darwin. In northern Australia, the predominant wind is from the east or southeast in most occasions, which usually bring dry conditions. [4] Though during monsoon periods (between November and April), the winds change to northwesterly, where atmospheric pressure decreases over an area extending to Java, Sumatra, Timor Sea and eastward to Papua New Guinea.

  3. Climate of Australia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Australia

    A billabong in the Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory. The monsoon climate of northern Australia is hot and humid in summer. The tropical savannah zone of Northern Australia is warm to hot all year. Summers are hot in most of the country with average January maximum temperatures exceeding 30 °C over most of the mainland, except for high ...

  4. Monsoon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsoon

    However, the monsoon is not a simple response to heating but a more complex interaction of topography, wind and sea, as demonstrated by its abrupt rather than gradual withdrawal from the region. The Australian monsoon (the "Wet") occurs in the southern summer when the monsoon trough develops over Northern Australia. Over three-quarters of ...

  5. Wet season - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_season

    The rainfall distribution by month in Cairns, Australia. 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]

  6. Effects of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation in Australia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_El_Niño...

    There is less risk of frost, [13] but increased risk of widespread flooding, tropical cyclones, and the monsoon season starts earlier. [14] La Niña Modoki leads to a rainfall increase over northwestern Australia and northern Murray–Darling basin, rather than over the east as in a conventional La Niña. [15]

  7. Northern Australia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Australia

    The monsoon climate of northern Australia is hot and humid in summer. A banana farm in Far North Queensland, 2018 A crocodile in Danggu Gorge National Park in the Kimberley, 2008. Almost all of Northern Australia is a huge ancient craton that has not experienced geological upheaval since the end of the Precambrian.

  8. Alligator Rivers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator_Rivers

    Alligator Rivers is the name of an area in an Arnhem Land region of the Northern Territory of Australia, containing three rivers, the East, West, and South Alligator Rivers. It is regarded as one of the richest biological regions in Australia, with part of the region in the Kakadu National Park .

  9. Kimberley tropical savanna - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberley_tropical_savanna

    There are approximately 1500 monsoon rainforest patches totaling 7,000 hectares (ha). The average patch is less than four hectares. Only 3% exceed 20 ha, and the largest is 200 ha. Monsoon rainforest is composed of semi-deciduous or deciduous trees which lose their leaves towards the end of the dry season ("raingreen").