word | | Climate |
| monsoon | Thailand | tropical; rainy, warm, cloudy southwest monsoon (mid-May to September); dry, cool northeast monsoon (November to mid-March); southern isthmus always hot and humid |
| monsoon | Yemen | mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east |
| monsoonal | Guinea | generally hot and humid; monsoonal-type rainy season (June to November) with southwesterly winds; dry season (December to May) with northeasterly harmattan winds |
| monsoonal | 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 |
| monsoonal | Nauru | tropical with a monsoonal pattern; rainy season (November to February) |
| monsoonal | Pacific Ocean | ... and western regions at the same latitude in the North Pacific Ocean; the western Pacific is monsoonal - a rainy season occurs during the summer months, when moisture-laden winds blow from the ... |
| monsoonal | Vietnam | tropical in south; monsoonal in north with hot, rainy season (May to September) and warm, dry season (October to March) |
| monsoons | Malaysia | tropical; annual southwest (April to October) and northeast (October to February) monsoons |
| monsoons | Somalia | ... February), moderate temperatures in north and hot in south; southwest monsoon (May to October), torrid in the north and hot in the south, irregular rainfall, hot and humid periods (tangambili) between monsoons |
| months | Cocos (Keeling) Islands | tropical with high humidity, moderated by the southeast trade winds for about nine months of the year |
| months | Pacific Ocean | ... the North Pacific Ocean; the western Pacific is monsoonal - a rainy season occurs during the summer months, when moisture-laden winds blow from the ocean over the land, and a dry season ... |
| mountain | Germany | temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm mountain (foehn) wind |
| mountainous | Iraq | mostly desert; mild to cool winters with dry, hot, cloudless summers; northern mountainous regions along Iranian and Turkish borders experience cold winters with occasionally heavy snows that melt in early spring, sometimes ... |
| mountains | Austria | temperate; continental, cloudy; cold winters with frequent rain and some snow in lowlands and snow in mountains; moderate summers with occasional showers |
| mountains | Haiti | tropical; semiarid where mountains in east cut off trade winds |
| mountains | Honduras | subtropical in lowlands, temperate in mountains |
| mountains | Lebanon | Mediterranean; mild to cool, wet winters with hot, dry summers; Lebanon mountains experience heavy winter snows |
| mountains | Rwanda | temperate; two rainy seasons (February to April, November to January); mild in mountains with frost and snow possible |
| Mountains | Tajikistan | midlatitude continental, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid to polar in Pamir Mountains |
| 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 ... |
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