word | | Climate |
| generally | United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges | ... Jarvis Islands: equatorial; scant rainfall, constant wind, burning sun Johnston Atoll and Kingman Reef: tropical, but generally dry; consistent northeast trade winds with little seasonal temperature variation Midway Islands: subtropical with cool ... |
| gentle | Saint Martin | temperature averages 80-85 degrees all year long; low humidity, gentle trade winds, brief, intense rain showers; July-Novemeber is the hurricane season |
| grassland | Uzbekistan | mostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east |
| Great | United States | ... in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January ... |
| Guadeloupe | France | ... north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral French Guiana: tropical; hot, humid; little seasonal temperature variation Guadeloupe and Martinique: subtropical tempered by trade winds; moderately high humidity; rainy season (June to October ... |
| Guiana | France | ... summers along the Mediterranean; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral French Guiana: tropical; hot, humid; little seasonal temperature variation Guadeloupe and Martinique: subtropical tempered by trade winds ... |
| Gulf | Bahamas, The | tropical marine; moderated by warm waters of Gulf Stream |
| harmattan | Guinea | generally hot and humid; monsoonal-type rainy season (June to November) with southwesterly winds; dry season (December to May) with northeasterly harmattan winds |
| harmattan | Guinea-Bissau | tropical; generally hot and humid; monsoonal-type rainy season (June to November) with southwesterly winds; dry season (December to May) with northeasterly harmattan winds |
| harmattan | Senegal | tropical; hot, humid; rainy season (May to November) has strong southeast winds; dry season (December to April) dominated by hot, dry, harmattan wind |
| harsh | Saudi Arabia | harsh, dry desert with great temperature extremes |
| harsh | Yemen | mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east |
| harsher | Turkey | temperate; hot, dry summers with mild, wet winters; harsher in interior |
| Hawaii | United States | mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter ... |
| heat | Christmas Island | tropical with a wet season (December to April) and dry season; heat and humidity moderated by trade winds |
| heavier | Korea, South | temperate, with rainfall heavier in summer than winter |
| heaviest | Eritrea | hot, dry desert strip along Red Sea coast; cooler and wetter in the central highlands (up to 61 cm of rainfall annually, heaviest June to September); semiarid in western hills and lowlands |
| heavy | Dominica | tropical; moderated by northeast trade winds; heavy rainfall |
| heavy | Iraq | ... hot, cloudless summers; northern mountainous regions along Iranian and Turkish borders experience cold winters with occasionally heavy snows that melt in early spring, sometimes causing extensive flooding in central and southern Iraq |
| heavy | Kosovo | influenced by continental air masses resulting in relatively cold winters with heavy snowfall and hot, dry summers and autumns; Mediterranean and alpine influences create regional variation; maximum rainfall between October and December |
| heavy | Lebanon | Mediterranean; mild to cool, wet winters with hot, dry summers; Lebanon mountains experience heavy winter snows |
| heavy | Liberia | tropical; hot, humid; dry winters with hot days and cool to cold nights; wet, cloudy summers with frequent heavy showers |
| heavy | Macedonia | warm, dry summers and autumns; relatively cold winters with heavy snowfall |
| heavy | Micronesia, Federated States of | tropical; heavy year-round rainfall, especially in the eastern islands; located on southern edge of the typhoon belt with occasionally severe damage |
| heavy | Montenegro | Mediterranean climate, hot dry summers and autumns and relatively cold winters with heavy snowfalls inland |
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