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Rainy season

noun

One of the two seasons in tropical climates.

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"Rainy season" Quotes from Famous Books

... During the rainy season, the country was deluged, and the region of the five rivers, the theatre of such sanguinary war, especially suffered. The floods were so overwhelming, that they were said to have rushed up the rivers at the rate of seventy ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... by southeast trade winds; annual rainfall averages 124 inches; rainy season from November to April, dry season from May to October; little ...

— The 1996 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... but the miner keeps on working through the winter. The rainy season commences in the latter part of August and lasts two ...

— Klondyke Nuggets - A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest • Joseph Ladue

... the delightful phenomena which are observable at the commencement of the rainy season, (immediately following that of the withering hot winds,) the joy displayed by the peacocks is one of the most pleasing. These birds assemble in groups upon some retired spot of verdant grass; jump about in the most animated manner, and make the air ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 264, July 14, 1827 • Various

... struck by the rod of the prophet Moses, poured its liquid treasure down to the more level country, nourishing herbage and even large trees, in its descent, until, at the distance of some four or five miles, the stream, at least in dry seasons, was lost amid heaps of sand and stones, which in the rainy season marked the strength ...

— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott

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