Every
evening during the dry season, you can watch the fiery sun lower behind the ocean, and paint the sky in purple, red, orange, and gold hues.
In recent years, the weather has not been predictable, so we have experienced
rain during our dry season and sunshine during the rainy season.
Overall, the antioxidant content increased and fat content of the beans decreased
during the dry season as temperatures rose and soil moisture dropped.
Local rivers fed by these glaciers are becoming seasonal rivers, generating conflict among the 2 million people who depend on them for water
supplies during the dry season.
They inhabit tropical, freshwater pools and slow - flowing rivers, which often contain very low levels of dissolved oxygen and can
disappear during the dry season.
Throughout the year, the 2.3 million inhabitants of these two cities receive about 15 % of their water supply from glaciers, with this percentage almost
doubling during the dry season.
The most evidence you can see of the seasons is in the colour of the landscape: the rainy season makes the landscape lush and green, and
during dry season everything turns brown.
You can enjoy
camping during the dry season but you will have to have personal camping gear such as sleeping bag, towels, tent, air mattress, bed sheets and mosquito net.
The effects of glacier retreat would become
evident during the dry season, particularly in the west where glacial melt is more important to the river systems.
The report urged improving fire and forest management, including early warning systems, fire
bans during dry seasons and more augmented investment in forest protection and restoration.
This white sand beach is
beautiful during the dry season and is a great place to surf and meet other people as well as starting the night with some drinks while the sun sets.
In some cases, the foliage loss coincides with winter in temperate or polar climates, while others lose their leaves
during the dry season in climates with seasonal variation in rainfall.
The sink swallowed up roughly 0.77 gigaton of carbon per year, persisting despite a significant increase in biomass burning emissions that occurred
during the dry season of 2011, fueled by the rapid growth of vegetation that year.
Although the Amazon Jungle may appear to be perpetually green, a University of Illinois researcher believes there are actually seasonal differences of photosynthesis, with more
occurring during the dry season and less during the wet season.
«It's very likely that mosquitos are re-infected with Plasmodium falciparum parasites at the beginning of each wet season by biting humans who have carried the parasites, often asymptomatically, for up to eight
months during the dry season,» says Dr Antoine Claessens, a first author from the Malaria Programme at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
The dogs are pack animals, and they tried to survive the growing lion population by avoiding it, particularly
during the dry season when most lions retreat to the northwestern woodlands.
Best
visited during the dry season due to the poor conditions of roads during the rainy season, the trek to the gorilla groups may be tough, but the sweat expended will be worth it, as you'll get a glimpse of some of our closest cousins in the animal kingdom.
Fishing off the East coast of El Salvador is generally at its most prolific from November until
April during the dry season months, but is generally good year - round.
«There is going to be an afforestation project, but we don't want be like SADA's initiative, where trees were planted
during the dry season so we are holding on till the rain set in before we begin.
A World Bank report said in February 2015 that climate change is likely to increase river salinity leading to shortages of drinking water and irrigation and significant changes in aquatic ecosystems in the southwest coastal
areas during the dry season by 2050.
Named because they turn mocha
brown during the dry season, these 1,260 grassy knolls pop up from the jungle canopy and extend as far as the eye can see.
Glaciers around the world are shrinking and at risk of disappearing, including those in the mountains of Asia whose ice melt feeds the continent's major
rivers during the dry season.
In warmer lands, such as tropical, subtropical and arid lands, deciduous plants may lose their
leaves during dry seasons or during times when there are changes in rainfall.
A study published in Nature in February suggests that previous models based on satellite data have overestimated
greenness during dry seasons in the Amazon rainforest.
For example, in years that had more than average
burning during the dry season, measurements of soil moisture, evaporation and vegetation greenness — all of which help to trigger rain — decreased in the following wet season.
Right now, places like California assume water will be stored as snow in the winter and then will come as runoff in the spring, which the state apportions for various
uses during the dry season.
Brazil, which started the year in drought in southern and eastern areas, saw the focus of the drought shift northward with little
rainfall during the dry season over the Amazon.
First, it's a warm and sunny
place during its dry season from December to April, making it a perfect place to get away from the North American winter.
The stress on these roads from traffic creates an extremely bumpy car ride and also generates a great deal of
dust during the dry season and mud during the green season, making pedestrian traffic more challenging.