What would a tropical wet and dry climate look like?

Question

in a book i read it says that 'tropical wet and dry climates recieve abundant rainfall during the warm rainy summer season and experience a cool and dry winter. Vegetation in the wet and dry climate is mainly savanna and wooded savanna.' Then my teacher said that it was somewhat cloudy, but none of this is helping me grasp what it looks like, and if it's a savanna then it would be a grassy plain with scattered trees, and the grass would be dead looking, but i'm not sure anymore on what it really is...

Answer 1

i live in the tropics so I think i can answer this question. Trinidad, which is 10 degrees north of the equator and 9 miles east of Venezuela has two seasons. The dry season from January to June, is typically hot and 'mostly' arid. There are periods particularly between march/April time where there is very little rain. However, we do have tropical rain forest in Trinidad in the mountains which will attract rain almost everyday. If you live near the forest like I do I still rain during the dry season.

In the lowlands, or savannah, typically the vegetation is tall grasses, and becomes very arid during the dry season. The savannah has mostly been replaced by Sugar cane now.

During the wet season, typically from July to December, we tend to get very severe rain storms, usually between midday and 4pm in the afternoon. These storms are torrential and tend to cause some flash flooding.

In terms of the sky there is very little difference between the rain and dry seasons as in Trinidad we get a lot of cloud all the year round. In the west season, however you can see massive thermals raising with large black clouds at the top - very dramatic.

The temperature is relatively even throughout the year averaging about 28Celsius, with highs of about 35/36 during the day and 24/25 during the night.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

It looks a lot like Chad and similar areas just south of the Sahara Desert. In the dry season, there are sandstorms and wind-devils, the grass is brown. Animals and humans dig into river bottoms to find water. In the wet season, the dry riverbeds turn into raging torrents, the grass turns green, the hippos, fish and other water-loving creatures come out of nowhere, and kids go swimming. Scattered trees, except where they grow along an underground aquifer, having put down deep roots to reach it year-round. I'll be posting more photos from Chad on my 360 site.

Answer 3

Tropical climates are below the Earth's equator. Such as in the Bahamas, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and so fourth. The Amazon Jungle in South America has a alot of vegetation and alot of rainfall.

Answer 4

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