word | | Climate |
| 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 |
| heaviest | South Sudan | hot with seasonal rainfall influenced by the annual shift of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone; rainfall is heaviest in the upland areas of the south and diminishes to the north |
| 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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