Definitions for dry season
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1. dry seasonnoun

   one of the two seasons in tropical climates

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1. dry seasonnoun

   Any season in which little rain falls; used especially in the tropics where it alternates with the rainy season

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1. Dry season

   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.

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1. Dry season

   The dry season is a yearly period of low rainfall in the tropics. 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. The tropical rain belt lies in the southern hemisphere roughly from October to March, and during this time the northern tropics experience a dry season in which precipitation is more rare, and days are typically sunny throughout. From April to September, the rain belt lies in the northern hemisphere, and the southern tropics experience their dry season. Under the Köppen climate classification, for tropical climates, a dry season month is defined as a month where average precipitation is below 60 millimetres. The dry season is characterized by its low humidity, and some watering holes and rivers drying up. Because of the lack of these watering holes, many grazing animals are forced to migrate due to the lack of water and feed to more fertile spots. Examples of such animals are zebras, elephants, and wildebeest. Because of the lack of water in the plants, bushfires are common. Data shows that in Africa, the advent of the Dry Season coincides with a rise in the cases of measles—which researchers believe might be attributed to the higher concentration of people in the dry season, as agricultural operations are all but impossible without irrigation. During this time, some farmers move into cities, creating hubs of higher population density, and allowing disease to spread more easily.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dry season in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dry season in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of dry season in a Sentence

1. Eddy Njoroge:

   Water security is likely to pose a bigger challenge as climate change leads to less water in the dry season and heavier deluges in the rainy season, this is compounded by population growth that reduces the amount of water available per head.

2. Esther Usman:

   [ It ] helps me to pay for some things during the dry season when there isn't a lot of money around, i also don't have to struggle for capital during the next farming season.

3. Allyson Gantt:

   Generally speaking, we do the walks in shallow water, the alligators are typically near deeper water. That said, occasionally we see them in the culverts or a canal near the road where we enter. Once, when I was in a very typical cypress dome with a deep hole in the center, we saw a good-size alligator who was clearly the resident of the deep hole in the center of the dome. Other times, late in the dry season, I've seen alligators left in the few patches of water that remain. We tromped by in the mud, without disturbing the alligator in the water hole.

4. Ali Akanda:

   Large rivers are variable interannually, so, depending on how a particular monsoon season is going, it will have an impact on the upcoming dry season, and similarly, the dry seasons have an impact on monsoons.

5. Salam Kone:

   If we have a little rain and a lot of sun in the two coming weeks, the trees and the fruits will be able to resist the dry season and the Harmattan well to produce many beans.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dry season
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dry_Season
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_Season
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=dry season