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A wet season or rainy season is a season in which the average rainfall in a region is significantly increased. The term green season is also sometimes used as a euphemism by tourist authorities. A season is one of the major divisions of the year, generally based on yearly periodic changes in weather. ... The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the two tropics: the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. ... The dry season is a term commonly used when describing the weather in the tropics. ... A season is one of the major divisions of the year, generally based on yearly periodic changes in weather. ... In geography, temperate latitudes of the globe lie between the tropics and the polar circles. ... Spring is one of the four seasons of temperate zones, the transition from winter into summer. ... Summer is a season that is astronomically defined as beginning around June 21, and ending around September 23 in the Northern Hemisphere. ... Fall redirects here. ... Winter is one of the four seasons of temperate zones. ... A season is one of the major divisions of the year, generally based on yearly periodic changes in weather. ... In meteorology, precipitation is any kind of water that falls from the sky as part of the weather. ... A euphemism is an expression intended by the speaker to be less offensive, disturbing, or troubling to the listener than the word or phrase it replaces, or in the case of doublespeak to make it less troublesome for the speaker. ... Tourists at Oahu island, Hawaii Tourism is the act of travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes, and also refers to the provision of services in support of this act. ...


These terms are commonly used describing the weather in the tropics. Tropical weather is dominated by the movement of the tropical rain belt, which oscillates from the northern to the southern tropics over the course of the year. The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the two tropics: the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. ... The weather in the tropics is dominated by the tropical rain belt, which oscillates from the northern to the southern tropics over the course of the year. ... Oscillation is the variation, typically in time, of some measure as seen, for example, in a swinging pendulum. ...


The tropical rain belt lies in the southern hemisphere roughly from October to March, and during this time the southern tropics experience a wet season, in which rain is common. Typically, days start off hot and sunny, with humidity building during the day and culminating in large thunderstorms and torrential rain in the afternoon or evening. From April to September, the rain belt lies in the northern hemisphere, and the northern tropics experience their wet season. A shelf cloud associated with a heavy or severe thunderstorm over Enschede, The Netherlands. ...


The rain belt reaches roughly as far north as the Tropic of Cancer and as far south as the Tropic of Capricorn. Near these latitudes, there is one wet season and one dry season annually. On the equator, there are two wet and two dry seasons as the rain belt passes over twice a year, once moving north and once moving south. Between the tropics and the equator, locations may experience a short wet and a long wet season. Local geography may also substantially modify these climate patterns. World map showing the Tropic of Cancer The Tropic of Cancer (cancer is Latin for crab), or Northern tropic is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. ... World map showing the Tropic of Capricorn The Tropic of Capricorn or Southern tropic is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. ... World map showing the equator in red The Equator is an imaginary circle drawn around a planet (or other astronomical object) at a distance halfway between the poles. ...


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Wet and Dry Seasons in East Central Florida (3044 words)
The Wet Season is typically considered to begin in the latter part of May and resembles "summer" across much of the remainder of the country.
The Wet Season is marked by a daily inland progression of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico sea breezes as a low pressure trough develops across the peninsula due to surface heating.
The Wet Season in east central Florida is commonly referred to as the "Rainy Season." Though not as dramatic as the Monsoon circulations elsewhere in the world, the Florida peninsula has many of the same climate characteristics and certainly can be classified as "Monsoon-like" or "Monsoonally influenced" with a distinct wet-dry seasonal rhythm.
Wet season signs - November 2005 - Scribbly Gum - ABC Science Online (1235 words)
Paperbacks are also among the trees that blossom with the early wet season, attracting fruit bats, and nectar-eating birds such as honey eaters and lorikeets.
Another reptile active in the north and west is the frill-necked lizard, which breeds throughout the wet season and is increasingly seen running along the red dirt tracks.
During full and new moons and incoming tides throughout the wet season the females lay eggs near the river mouths.
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