word | | Climate |
| mountains | United Arab Emirates | desert; cooler in eastern mountains |
| Mountains | United States | ... in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains |
| mountains | Yemen | mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east |
| move | Atlantic Ocean | tropical cyclones (hurricanes) develop off the coast of Africa near Cape Verde and move westward into the Caribbean Sea; hurricanes can occur from May to December but are most frequent from August ... |
| narrow | Arctic Ocean | polar climate characterized by persistent cold and relatively narrow annual temperature ranges; winters characterized by continuous darkness, cold and stable weather conditions, and clear skies; summers characterized by continuous daylight, damp and ... |
| navigable | Svalbard | arctic, tempered by warm North Atlantic Current; cool summers, cold winters; North Atlantic Current flows along west and north coasts of Spitsbergen, keeping water open and navigable most of the year |
| nights | Liberia | tropical; hot, humid; dry winters with hot days and cool to cold nights; wet, cloudy summers with frequent heavy showers |
| nights | South Africa | mostly semiarid; subtropical along east coast; sunny days, cool nights |
| nine | Cocos (Keeling) Islands | tropical with high humidity, moderated by the southeast trade winds for about nine months of the year |
| north | Angola | semiarid in south and along coast to Luanda; north has cool, dry season (May to October) and hot, rainy season (November to April) |
| north | Australia | generally arid to semiarid; temperate in south and east; tropical in north |
| north | Benin | tropical; hot, humid in south; semiarid in north |
| north | Cameroon | varies with terrain, from tropical along coast to semiarid and hot in north |
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