RAINY SEASON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rainy season mean? 

• RAINY SEASON (noun)
  The noun RAINY SEASON has 1 sense:

1. one of the two seasons in tropical climates

  Familiarity information: RAINY SEASON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAINY SEASON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the two seasons in tropical climates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("rainy season" is a kind of...):

season; time of year (one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rainy season"):

monsoon (rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains)

Antonym:

dry season (one of the two seasons in tropical climates)

 Context examples 

But they don't occur till December or January, while the rainy season currently starts in mid-October — two or three months earlier.

(New Study Shows the Amazon Makes Its Own Rainy Season, NASA)

Outbreaks occur in the rainy season.

(Dengue, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

I was hurried upon my last visit by the approach of the rainy season and by the exhaustion of my supplies.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Grasses green up in the rainy season.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

In addition to insecticide-treated bed nets, certain drugs can help prevent malaria in infants during the rainy season.

(Drug Prevents Malaria in High-Risk Region, NIH)

The research team analysed the influence of ultrafine particles on cloud cycles in the rainforest during the 2014 rainy season, when there were no forest fires and the only source of pollution was Manaus, the largest city in the Amazon.

(Tiny pollutants intensify storms in the Amazon, SciDev.Net)

It's been a mystery why the rainy season begins when it does in the Amazon south of the equator.

(New Study Shows the Amazon Makes Its Own Rainy Season, NASA)

A new study gives the first observational evidence that the southern Amazon rainforest triggers its own rainy season using water vapor from plant leaves.

(New Study Shows the Amazon Makes Its Own Rainy Season, NASA)

The measurements showed that, during the transition from dry to wet season, transpired water becomes a significant moisture source for the atmosphere, and in particular for the middle troposphere, where the increasing water vapor provides the fuel needed to start the rainy season.

(New Study Shows the Amazon Makes Its Own Rainy Season, NASA)

In most tropical regions, two factors control the timing of the rainy season: monsoon winds (a seasonal change of direction in prevailing winds) and the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), a belt of converging trade winds around the equator that shifts north or south with the seasons.

(New Study Shows the Amazon Makes Its Own Rainy Season, NASA)