Growing on rocky slopes, the plants dry out during the dry season and become a rusty orange color, but quickly turn green and become active again once it starts to rain.

The whole country is windy and dusty during the dry season.

The whole country is windy and dusty during the dry season.

In the rainy season, the country receives between 600 and 900 millimetres ( 23. 6 and 35. 4 in ) of rainfall ; in the dry season, the harmattan – a hot dry wind from the Sahara – blows.

However, four seasons can be distinguished: the long dry season ( June – August ), the short wet season ( September – November ), the short dry season ( December – January ), and the long wet season ( February – May ).

They prefer areas in the nesting season that have access to both upland and wetland areas, though they feed almost entirely in dry areas.

The rainforest was also greatly destroyed from the forest fires of 1997 to 1998, which were started by the locals to clear the forests for crops and perpetuated by an exceptionally dry El Niño season during that period.

** Summer rainy season and cooler “ winter ” dry season

The Chari's volume varies greatly, from 17 cubic meters per second during the dry season to 340 cubic meters per second during the wettest part of the year.

Fluctuations in both cause the lake to change dramatically in size, from 9, 800 square kilometers in the dry season to 25, 500 at the end of the rainy season.

By the middle of the dry season, the intertropical convergence zone moves south of Chad, taking the rain with it.

The first rainy season begins around March and last to the end of July with a peak in June, this rainy season is followed by a short dry break in August known as the August break which is a short dry season lasting for two to three weeks in August. This break is broken by the Short rainy season starting around early September and lasting to Mid October with a peak period at the end of September. The ending of the short rainy season in October is followed by Long Dry Season. This period starts from late October and lasts till early March with peak dry conditions between early December and late February.

The wet season lasts from March to June and the dry season for the rest of the year.

Dakar's rainy season lasts from July to October while the dry season covers the remaining eight months.

The city ’ s dry season lasts from June through August and is caused by the cold Beneguela Current reaching its northernmost extent and suppressing rainfall.

There are two seasons: the ' dry ' season is from January to May and the ' rainy ' season lasts for the rest of the year.

The city, situated on Carmen Island, has a pronounced dry season that lasts from January through May, with the wet season finishing out the year.

Autumn lasts too long in my heart: Sun of Love, will you never shine and dry away my bitter tears?

The rainy season lasts from November to April and the dry season from April to October.

The rainy season lasts from March or April to November and the dry season from December to March or April of the following year.

The dry, cool season starts in May and lasts until September.

The dry season lasts from about April until November and is characterized by very dry southeast to east winds, generated by migratory winter high pressure systems to the south.

A dry, mild winter starts in late November and lasts until early February ; with little humidity and average temperatures in the range, this is the best time to visit Anantapur.

The year begins in a long dry season that lasts from December to May.

The dry period lasts from May to October.

Many of the trees are deciduous, losing their leaves during the dry season which normally lasts from December to July.

The Base's climate is characterized by the annual alternation between a dry period, which lasts more than four months and which has high temperatures, and another one humid ( autumn-winter ) with mild temperatures.

The average rainy season lasts from May to October, dry season from mid-October to April / May.

Most of the high temperatures and rainfall occur during the hot rainy season ( invierno ) which lasts from mid-December to mid-June, while the cooler dry season ( verano ) lasts from mid-June to mid-December.

However, two seasons predominate: the cooler, dry season that typically lasts from June to November and brings light drizzle, oceanic coastal fog, mild to warm temperatures, and mainly overcast skies.

Here, the dry season lasts longer, and temperatures reach even higher levels.

The earliest amphibians evolved in the Devonian Period from sarcopterygian fish with lungs and bony-limbed fins, features that were helpful in adapting to dry land.

Adobe (, ; Arabic: الطوب ) is a natural building material made from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or organic material ( sticks, straw, and / or manure ), which the builders shape into bricks ( using frames ) and dry in the sun.

Although most extant species of Asteraceae are herbaceous, the examination of the basal members in the family suggests that the common ancestor of the family was an arborescent plant, a tree or shrub, perhaps adapted to dry conditions, radiating from South America.

The bench is tiled and in order to dry up quickly after it rains, and to stop people from sitting in the wet part of the bench, small bumps were installed by Gaudí.

Baltic amber yields on dry distillation succinic acid, the proportion varying from about 3 % to 8 %, and being greatest in the pale opaque or bony varieties.

When dry, acrylic paint is generally non-removable from a solid surface.

Designed with a retarder, slow drying medium, or other proprietary mediums that allow the paints to be reopened, these paints can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days, or even a few weeks to dry completely.

Weak thunderstorms produce mostly dry lightning, sparking wildfires that are mostly left to burn themselves out as they are often far from populated areas.

Atmospheric water generators extract moisture from dry desert air and filter it to pure water.

According to Lillie McGarvey, a 20th-century Aleut leader, barabaras keep " occupants dry from the frequent rains, warm at all times, and snugly sheltered from the high winds common to the area ".

It is sometimes described as having a torrent-like behaviour, because it can easily go from almost dry to near-flood in a few days.

A relatively dry tropical savanna, the Sahel extends beyond the borders of Burkina Faso, from the Horn of Africa to the Atlantic Ocean, and borders the Sahara to its north and the fertile region of the Sudan to the South.

The following day, at 01: 00, Marlborough dispatched Cadogan, his Quartermaster-General, with an advanced guard to reconnoitre the same dry ground that Villeroi ’ s army was now heading, country that was well known to the Duke from previous campaigns.

However, Bethlehem is affected also by annual waves of hot, dry, sandy and dust Khamaseen winds from the Arabian Desert, during April, May and mid-June.

As the bean pods mature, they turn yellow and dry up, and the beans inside change from green to their mature colour.

Inexpensive fermentation improves the nutritional impact of flour from dry beans and improves digestibility, according to research co-authored by Emire Shimelis, from the Food Engineering Program at Addis Ababa University.

The humidity from the steam that rises as the water heats helps keep the top of the custard from becoming too dry.